With ambitious eagerness the assistant had already opened it to a specific passage.

If I cite a specific passage, others would react and say it can be interpreted differently.

"Do you want me to recount the entire page or a specific passage?"

Finally he stopped at a specific passage and recited from it.

An answer to a fact based question asks the reader to simply recall the text and point to one specific passage.

Bomanz worked his way through the original manuscript, occasionally asking about specific passages.

They stress these overarching values rather than examining specific passages or texts.

Other rules are not based on a specific biblical passage.

The codex or book of medieval times allowed random access to specific passages.

As to my criticism about the tone of specific passages, this again is a matter of interpretation.