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21-0212 Quarantine 2021: What You Need to Know! (Part 3) with Dr. Matt Cawthorn, covers the idea of the special nature of the 40 days as reflected in the English word "Quarantine."

In the 1660's, this was a period a ship suspected of carrying disease is kept in isolation," from Italian "quaranta giorni," literally meaning a "space of forty days," from quaranta "forty," from Latin "quadraginta" "forty," which is related to quattuor "four." It was so called from the Venetian policy (first enforced in 1377) of keeping ships from plague-stricken countries waiting off its port for "40 days" to assure that no latent cases were aboard. The extended sense of "any period of forced isolation" is from the 1670's.

Quarantine, then, ties into the custom of "keeping the fast in Lent" as part of the holy observance of the season from its very beginnings. We link the "40 days of Lent" with the "40 days" Jesus spent in the wilderness in prayer and fasting, with the inference that for those who would follow Jesus, Lent is a parallel experience. Therefore, "Lent" is a penitential season in "Quarantine!"

This video also looks at some of the differences between the "active" and "passive" judgment of God as contained in the Holy Scriptures.

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