They are large - scale paintings with definite references to other painters through history. (dismagazine.com)
The Ministry of Absolution has always been provided for in the English Prayer Book, but though not infrequently practiced in the seventeenth century it became almost obsolete in the eighteenth, as shown by the disappearance of definite references to it in the American Prayer Book of 1789. (religion-online.org)
Most scholars will be startled to learn that the «scrolls contain definite references to the New Testament and, more importantly, to Jesus of Nazareth»; that fragments of New Testament books were found in the Dead Sea caves; that one scroll mentions the crucifixion of Jesus; and that some Jews at Qumran accepted Jesus as the Messiah. (religion-online.org)