Numbered list not starting at 1

I recently wanted to quote a part of a technical document, such as this:

6.2.1 Scopes of identifiers

8. As a special case, a type name (which is not a declaration of an identifier) is considered to have a scope that begins just after the place within the type name where the omitted identifier would appear were it not omitted.

This works fine, except that the quoted paragraph is number 8, not number 1.

Is there any way to make the list start at a particular number (eg. <ol start=8>)?