Philip the Arab and Christianity that appear—save for one reference to Ishmael—figure in the political history of the first three centuries of the Christian era. To Eusebius, the Saracens of the 4th century are direct-line descendants of the biblical Ishmaelites, descendants of the handmaid, Hagar, and the patriarch, Abraham. They are thus outcasts, beyond God's Covenant with the favored son of Abraham, Isaac. The twin images of the Ishmaelite and the Saracen—outcasts and "latrones", raiders of the frontiers—reinforce each other and give Eusebius' portrait of the Arab nation an unhappy color. He may have been reluctant to associate the first Christian emperor with a people
Son of a Gun (Homicide: Life on the Street) "Son of a Gun" was the same character. The line spoken by Lewis, "Murderers lie because they have to, witnesses lie because they think they have to, and everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it", is almost a verbatim line from "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets". The line represents a three-rule theorem about police work Simon created after following a Baltimore Police Department homicide unit for one year while writing his book. "Son of a Gun" continues a common motif repeated throughout the first season of Crosetti discussing various conspiracy theories about the assassination of Abraham