OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 7:18

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the beginning, end, and middle of times; the alternations of the solstices and the changes of seasons;

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Verse 18. Times. Or “things.” Saint Ambrose Abr. ii. 7.—Times past, present, and future, (Orig. hom. xxi.) or the three seasons;; autumn, the beginning of the civil year, summer the end, and spring or winter, the middle. Grot.—Their. The “seasons,” as the Greek implies, ( Calmet.) and the vicissitudes of heat and cold. Menochius.

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