forty-and-six

Updated: June 11, 2025

''Tis a lifelong task ere the lump be leavened. Eternal life is a gift, but the building of a Christian character is the result of patient, continuous, well-directed efforts to the appropriation and employment of the gift that we have received. 'Forty-and-six years was this temple in building, they said, and it was not finished then.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture : Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII

It will take more than forty-and-six years to build up in my poor heart, full of rubbish and of evil, a temple to the Holy Ghost.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture : Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII