Bible Dictionary: Forty: Days: Symbolical

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Ezekiel 4:6
And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.
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Letter xxxvi. (AD 396. )
... day of the week, when they fasted forty days; so the ... Lord said, "You know that after
two days is the ... a day for fasting, as fasting is symbolical of humiliation ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xxxvi a d 396.htm

The Content of Prayer: Its Four Moods
... heavenly things and the earthly shall be added unto you." All symbolical and typical ...
the Lord a second time even as also the former time forty days and forty ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen on prayer/chapter ix the content of.htm

Jesus Only
... face to face, and rested with him in solemn conclave by the space of forty days
at a ... As I read my Bible I see there that the age of the symbolical, the typical ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 16 1870/jesus only.htm

Letter Lv. Replies to Questions of Januarius.
... for this life, because in it the creature (of which the symbolical number is ... it is
not without reason that the Lord Himself continued for forty days on this ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter lv replies to questions.htm

The People on the Earth: Chapters 2-3
... attempt to solve the difficulty by considering the name as being symbolical (as
they ... seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty ...
/.../bullinger/commentary on revelation/the people on the earth .htm

The Life of Christ.
... [23:1] By these symbolical discourses He ... Jesus, as the first-born of Mary, was presented
in the temple forty days after His birth; and, as "the first-begotten ...
//christianbookshelf.org/killen/the ancient church/chapter ii the life of.htm

Give us Today Our Needful Bread
... not bread and drank not water forty days, and since ... or assemblies recorded in terms
of days or months or seasons or years have symbolical references to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen on prayer/chapter xvii give us today.htm

Catechetical Instruction.
... maintains [91] that S. Augustine here refers only to the symbolical use of ... name
inscribed....A long notice is allowed thee; thou hast forty days for repentance ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/chapter ii catechetical instruction.htm

Faustus Denies that the Prophets Predicted Christ. Augustin Proves ...
... The dove was sent forth after forty days, a period denoting the ... out of her window
a scarlet line symbolical of blood ... now in the course of the seven days of time ...
/.../faustus denies that the prophets.htm

The Meal at Emmaus
... Lord's relations to His disciples in the interval of these forty days; and I ... of great
spiritual truths; and although the habit of finding symbolical meaning in ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the meal at emmaus.htm

Subtopics

Forty

Forty: Days by Elijah

Forty: Days by Jesus

Forty: Days by Moses

Forty: Days by Spies in the Land of Promise

Forty: Days for Embalming

Forty: Days of Flood, Before Sending Forth the Raven

Forty: Days of Probation, Given to the Ninevites

Forty: Days of Rain, at the Time of the Flood

Forty: Days: Christ's Stay After the Resurrection

Forty: Days: Symbolical