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40 also symbolized "a great but indeterminate number" This is the reason the number appears so often in the bible. I don't have the scholarly background to do a proper wiki page on this. There have been some suggestions that the number was sacred to a
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If we are going to start pointing out the number of fingers and toes of multiple people, we are going to have to modify a lot of articles (60, 80, 100, 120, 140, etc...) Also, could you show how you can use "the three joints and tip of each finger" to count to 40. Is it practical? Was it ever used?
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Eternalism -- they don't appear to relate meaningfully to at least what wikipedia has to say about those two terms. Eternalism has nothing to say about the anti-christ and gematria, and Raffi is a dead poet. If I'm off base here, please re-add with a better
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While it is certainly true that vowels are shortened in certain derivations - another example is wild - bewildered - this does not explain why fourteen is spelled with ou, since fifteen (like fifty) is spelled and pronounce with a short "i". I think there is no logical explanation why forty and
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I think there might actually be some credence to this, although I can't provide any research to back this up. I'm citing a poster I remember seeing in high school with some "fun facts" on it, one of them saying something to the extent of "there was no word in ancient Hebrew for 'many', so they
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I have modified this point to clarify the numbering (this article is not the place to hash out Lenten practice). There is in fact a renewed interest in Lent in a great number of protestant, or evangelical churches. Also, Eastern
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In the ancient middle-east, forty wasn't a generation but a the lifespan of the people, so forty years can be equal to two or even three generations. So there wasn't any magician or trick to say forty is "too many years" since they didn't expected to live forty years. It's the same to say
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traditions to represent in years a generation and may be a result of counting on 10 fingers and subdividing each finger and thumb into its tip and three joints. 40 would then be seen as a limit and a cycle."
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