More than anything there were invocations of religion and faith, Bible passages, references to God's grace.
The coroner's report contains some tantalising passages, references to incidents preceded by the word "fortunately", and "unfortunately", and to the occasional "mistake".
Instead short quotations could give way to long passages; references could open up on other books and documents; a deeper network — a web — of ideas and texts could be established.
Some posts were Bible passages referencing Sodom and Gomorrah; others were focused on the threat from radical Islam.
The Luke 10 19 passage referenced in the bottom left corner reads: Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Given that a bill's initial passage, referenced in the first sentence of this excerpt, has already been established to require merely a majority of a quorum, it's obvious that the "two thirds" mentioned in the second sentence is two thirds of a quorum — not two thirds of the entire membership.
Additional spoken texts came from Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs, the latter contributing a prose passage referencing a bathing cap of either blue, yellow or green.
Mr. Marks realized that these codes were hardly unbreakable since the Germans might have sampled Shakespeare or Keats or could check on specific passages in reference books.
One tract, Pirqe Avot ("Sayings of the Fathers"), treated the meaning and posture of a life according to the Torah, while other passages made reference to the mystical studies into which only the most advanced and religiously worthy were initiated e.g., the activities of the Merkava, or divine "Chariot," and the doctrines of creation.
passages with references but without the required quotation marks (PQi). .
