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Methuselah

Methuselah. In earliest Bible history, people lived to be extremely old. One of which was Methuselah, the oldest man in the Bible.

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Methuselah

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  1. Methuselah In earliest Bible history, people lived to be extremely old. One of which was Methuselah, the oldest man in the Bible. “And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech. And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.” (Genesis 5: 25-27) References in English to Methuselah’s longevity first appeared in the fourteenth century, while the saying “as old as Methuselah” dates to Thomas Shelton’s 1620 translation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote. What is the phrase “old as Methulesah” alluding to? www.gracecathedral.org www.keyway.ca

  2. CALYPSO Calypso was a nymph, the daughter of the Titan Atlas. She lived on the island of Ogygia. After the last of Odysseus’ men had perished at sea, Odysseus himself was washed ashore on Ogygia, where Calypso became enamored of him, taking him as her lover and promising him immortality if he would stay with her. Odysseus refused her offer, wishing to return home to Ithaca and to his wife, Penelope. But Calypso refused to let him leave, and held him prisoner for seven years. Finally Athena complained of Odysseus’ plight to Zeus, and Zeus sent Hermes to Ogygia to order Calypso to set Odysseus free. Calypso complied reluctantly, allowing Odysseus to construct a small boat and set sail from the island. What would calling a woman calypso be alluding to?

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