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NASB | Matthew 4:2 And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 4:2 After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry. [Ex 34:28; 1 Kin 19:8] |
Subject: significance of the number forty |
Bible Note: The number "forty" could well be tied in with purification or cleansing periods in the examples you cite, or even with times of testing, such as Jesus' forty days and nights in the wilderness. Your interpretation makes as good a sense as any if one presumes any symbolic significance to the number. It does not seem to be in serious conflict with John MacArthur's view -- that forty simply means forty, or that forty is a Hebrew figure of speech to indicate a period of time longer than a month. Whatever the specific meaning may be, we can be sure from the internal evidence that Noah's Flood was considerably more than a rain shower and that Jesus' fast involved significantly more than going without lunch for a day. At all events, the time frames are subordinate in importance to the stirring dramas that took place within them. --Hank |
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