Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $79,880
98%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 98%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: 40nights

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Origins of the word 'Quarantine' and the significance of the Number 40 (days)

    04/23/2020 2:39:38 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 7 replies
    History.com ^ | Mar 2020 | Dave Roos
    The English word “quarantine” is a direct descendent of quarantino, the Italian word for a 40-day period. Why 40 days? Health officials may have prescribed a 40-day quarantine because the number had great symbolic and religious significance to medieval Christians. When God flooded the Earth, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, and Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days. Stevens Crawshaw says that even before the arrival of the plague, the biblical notion of a 40-day period of purification had crossed over into health practices. After childbirth, for example, a new mother was expected to rest for...