Note 199 — Chapter VI
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
The forty days’ duration of the Flood, the forty days’ sojourn of Moses on Mount Sinai, our Saviour’s fast for the same length of time in the wilderness; lastly, what is called the Saxon term (Sächsische Frist,) which lasts for forty days, &c. Compare G. W. Wedel, Centuria Exercitationum Medico-philologicarum. De Quadragesima Medica. Jenæ, 1701. 4. Dec. IV. p. 16.