Definition of "those"

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 1:1

When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts.

2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52