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RE: Gettysburg Address
(07-19-2019 11:28 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Most scholars agree that Lincoln's famous turn of phrase "Four score and seven years ago" came from the King James Version of the Bible, with which he was so familiar, and wherein the phrase "three score and ten" appears numerous times.

Psalm 90 verse 10, uses the term "four score"
"The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away"

The entire psalm -
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=KJV
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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