quarantine = “space of forty days”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Temptation
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Quarantania
The Mount of Temptation is said to be the hill in the Judean Desert where Jesus was tempted by the devil (Matthew 4:8). The exact location is unknown and impossible to determine. It is generally identified with Mount Quarantania, Arabic name: Jabal al-Qarantal, a mountain approximately 366 metres (1,201 ft) high, towering from the northwest over the town of Jericho in the West Bank. According to the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1914), Quarantania is “a limestone peak on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho”.
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etymology
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quarantine (n.)
1660s, “period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation,” from Italian quaranta giorni, literally “space of forty days,” from quaranta “forty,” from Latin quadraginta “forty,” which is related to quattuor “four” (from PIE root *kwetwer- “four”). So called from the Venetian policy (first enforced in 1377) of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for 40 days to assure that no latent cases were aboard. Also see lazaretto. The extended sense of “any period of forced isolation” is from 1670s.
Earlier in English the word meant “period of 40 days in which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband’s house” (1520s), and, as quarentyne (15c.), “desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days,” from Latin quadraginta “forty.”
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https://fathersofmercy.com/the-significance-of-40-in-scripture/
http://www.scripturerevealed.com/bible-studies/numbers-in-scripture-the-number-40/
http://www.scripturerevealed.com/bible-studies/numbers-in-scripture-the-number-40/
The number forty is mentioned 157 times in Scripture. The number forty symbolizes a period of testing, trial or probation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine
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Signal flag “Quebec, “ also called the “Yellow Jack” is a simple yellow flag that was historically used to signal quarantine (it stands for Q), but in modern use indicates the opposite, as a signal of a ship free of disease that requests boarding and inspection
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May God have mercy on and keep us all.