The limit of forty days seems to have existed rather in theory than practice.
Defn: An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
Defn: A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.
After a siege of forty days, the Turks, who had already entered the town, were compelled to retreat; and the joyful nations celebrated Huniades and Belgrade as the bulwarks of Christendom.
But a day of forty days (Khondemir apud D'Herbelot, p.
In the space of forty days, one may travel to the frontiers of Tzin, which is the very extremity of the east.
We do not know just how much temporal punishment God remitted for forty days' public penance, but whatever it was, He remits the same now when we gain an Indulgence of forty days.
An Indulgence of forty days means that for the prayer or work to which an Indulgence of forty days is attached, God remits as much of our temporal punishment as He remitted for forty days' canonical penance.
According to the former passage, Jesus should have ascended into heaven on the same day as the resurrection; whilst, according to the latter, there was an interval of forty days.
He then sent them into their winter quarters and returned to Bibracte after an absence of forty days.
So frightful was the mortality that out of the four thousand hoplites under Agnon no fewer than one thousand and fifty died in the short space of forty days.
What will become of the apparitions of Onias to Judas Maccabeus, and of the devil to Jesus Christ himself, after his fast of forty days?
Mr. Bonwick says: "The Spaniards were surprised to see the Mexicans keep the vernal forty days' fast.
The Mexicans had a forty days' fast, in memory of Quetzalcoatl, who was tempted and fasted forty days on a mountain.
Lord Kingsborough says: "The temptation of Quetzalcoatl and the fast of forty days .
For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil.
Matthew Chapter 4 Christ's fast of forty days: He is tempted.
And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country, 13:27.
He went subsequently from Jerusalem to Joppa, and thence sailed, in forty days, to Alexandria in Egypt, a city famous throughout the whole world.
From thence we ascend a lofty mountain, to the spot where our Lord fasted forty days, and where he was afterwards tempted by Satan, about three miles from Jericho.
The distance from Mecca to Damascus is forty days' journey across the desert.
From hence the passage to China[260] is effected in forty days.
For rain did not fall then as it does ordinarily, since the water in forty days rose to such proportions as to submerge the highest mountains by fifteen arm-lengths.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
To the Ninevites Jonah announces destruction within forty days, and they repent and are saved.
We read before of forty days' patience, and after that of seven days' patience; and that after the waters began to return from off the earth, and here again of seven days more.
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
At forty days it weighed 3 pounds and measured 13 inches.
It was said that St. Francis de Paul, after he had subjected himself to frequent disciplinary inflictions, including a fast of thirty-eight to forty days, exhaled a most sensible and delicious odor.
Tanner, who achieved great notoriety by a fast of forty days, during which time he exhibited progressive emaciation.
Think of the rain what would fall during the whole of Lent from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday--forty days.
The Appian way, a march of forty days, was covered by the Barbarians; and as the prudence of Belisarius declined a battle, he preferred the safe and speedy navigation of five days from the coast of Epirus to the mouth of the Tyber.
But near Jericho stands a mountain where it is thought by some that Jesus stayed during those forty days.
This mountain on that account is called by a name which means "forty days"--Mount Quarantania.
His tenth appearance, as far as we know, and his last, may have been at the upper room in Jerusalem, forty days after he had risen from his tomb.
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