Difference between revisions of "Three score and ten"
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| − | * '''three score and ten:''' | + | * '''three score and ten:''' the span of a life, seventy years, as given in the Bible: Psalms 90:10. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." |
| − | * '''three score and ten:''' the | + | * '''three score and ten:''' according to Joseph Charles Mardrus, ''Introduction to the Koran'' 22, Muslim exegetes believe that every word of the Koran has seventy different meanings, one for each year of a man's life → [[sytty]] in line 19 below |
Revision as of 08:45, 4 July 2007
- three score and ten: the span of a life, seventy years, as given in the Bible: Psalms 90:10. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."
- three score and ten: according to Joseph Charles Mardrus, Introduction to the Koran 22, Muslim exegetes believe that every word of the Koran has seventy different meanings, one for each year of a man's life → sytty in line 19 below
