{"query": "The calendar in the text — twelve moons, an anchorless week", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5c477e45f8d5", "title": "The calendar in the text — twelve moons, an anchorless week", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sealed: the year holds 12.368 lunar months — twelve tribes, twelve months, and the\n0.368 remainder is why every lunar calendar limps without leap-months. Sealed as an honest\nNEGATIVE: a lunar quarter "}, {"id": "card_n_852257e9db4d", "title": "Easton: Month", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Among the Egyptians the month of thirty days each was in use long before the time of the Exodus, and formed the basis of their calculations. From the time of the institution of the Mosaic law the mont"}, {"id": "card_n_5c4ccf73a436", "title": "Easton: Year", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. shanah, meaning “repetition” or “revolution” (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revo"}, {"id": "card_n_58862c0156b3", "title": "Didache 8", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But let not your fasting be appointed in common with the hypocrites; for they fast on the second day of the week and on the fifth; but do ye fast during the fourth, and the preparation day. Nor pray y"}, {"id": "card_n_9c24074fe17d", "title": "Easton: Day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). “The heat of the day” (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o’clock, and “the c"}, {"id": "card_n_817442fc6789", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_019: Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to thee it is given to feel and to measure length of time. What wilt thou answer me? Are an hundred years, when present, a long"}, {"id": "card_n_2b4ff4156320", "title": "Easton: James, Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Author of, was James the Less, the Lord’s brother, one of the twelve apostles. He was one of the three pillars of the Church (Gal. 2:9). (2.) It was addressed to the Jews of the dispersion, “the "}, {"id": "card_n_2bb4cd399edc", "title": "Easton: Shewbread", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ex. 25:30 (R.V. marg., “presence bread”); 1 Chr. 9:32 (marg., “bread of ordering”); Num. 4:7: called “hallowed bread” (R.V., “holy bread”) in 1 Sam. 21:1-6. This bread consisted of twelve loaves made "}, {"id": "card_n_8d80f1b2f1aa", "title": "Easton: Tribe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A collection of families descending from one ancestor. The “twelve tribes” of the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wid"}, {"id": "card_n_b9e78a502510", "title": "Easton: Sermon on the mount", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "After spending a night in solemn meditation and prayer in the lonely mountain-range to the west of the Lake of Galilee (Luke 6:12), on the following morning our Lord called to him his disciples, and f"}, {"id": "card_n_7abed488f59f", "title": "Didache 3", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My child, flee from every evil thing, and from everything like it. Be not inclined to anger, for anger leadeth to murder; nor jealous, nor contentious, nor passionate; for of all these murders are beg"}, {"id": "card_n_96e5bd97e36d", "title": "Easton: Zacharias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A priest of the course of Abia, the eighth of the twenty-four courses into which the priests had been originally divided by David (1 Chr. 23:1-19). Only four of these courses or “families” of the"}, {"id": "card_c_05327b605327", "title": "The calendar in the text instantiates the biblical-numbers assay", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "One number of the honest assay — seals and nulls carried together."}, {"id": "card_n_1c110bca64f3", "title": "Barnabas VIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now what do you suppose this to be a type of, that a command was given to Israel, that men of the greatest wickedness should offer a heifer, and slay and burn it, and that then boys should take the as"}, {"id": "card_n_d5aa0bbe6827", "title": "Easton: Elements", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In its primary sense, as denoting the first principles or constituents of things, it is used in 2 Pet. 3:10: “The elements shall be dissolved.” In a secondary sense it denotes the first principles of "}, {"id": "card_n_48f380838b48", "title": "The perfect numbers — six days and a month", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "6 is the first perfect number — equal to both the sum AND the product of its parts\n(1+2+3 = 1×2×3), sealed — and the days of creation's work. The second perfect number is 28\n(1+2+4+7+14), sealed — a m"}, {"id": "card_n_574a6200876d", "title": "Easton: Joshua", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is his help, or Jehovah the Saviour. The son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, the successor of Moses as the leader of Israel. He is called Jehoshua in Num. 13:16 (A.V.), and Jesus in Acts 7:45"}, {"id": "card_n_ea1eb2bf8a62", "title": "Easton: Hour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a “moment,” a “look.” It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13;"}, {"id": "card_n_16178db2eb5c", "title": "Matthew 28", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.\n2. Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord de"}, {"id": "card_n_b8d540332416", "title": "Easton: Deluge", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to Noah’s flood, the history of which is recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. It began in the year 2516 B.C., and continued twelve lunar months and ten days, or exactly one solar year. The cause o"}]}