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Chief Justice Roberts And The "Forty Thieves", Keith R. Fisher, Konstantina Vagenas
Chief Justice Roberts And The "Forty Thieves", Keith R. Fisher, Konstantina Vagenas
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” Whether or not one agrees with the young Shakespeare about names – and many decidedly do not – numbers (as numerologists undoubtedly will assure you) are decidedly a different story and have always been thought to have extrinsic significance.
The number forty, for example, has extensive numerological significance, principally (though not exclusively) in biblical texts. A time period in the Bible – whether in days, months, or years and whether in the books of the Old or New Testament – that features …