https://askgramps.org/what-is-a-reasonable-amount-of-time-to-forgive-a-spouse-for-being-unfaithful/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://askgramps.org/what-is-a-reasonable-amount-of-time-to-forgive-a-spouse-for-being-unfaithful/#comment-33406 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:38:00 +0000 http://www.askgramps.org/what-is-a-reasonable-amount-of-time-to-forgive-a-spouse-for-being-unfaithful/#comment-33406 answer to #1: the numbers are symbolic. It was seven days for a boy, (seven days of creation, seven angels, seven dispensations) and on the eighth he was circumcised (in remembrance of baptism at 8 years). The woman then waited 33 days more, which I think was the age Christ was when he was crucified.
The waiting time for girls was 14 days, then 66 days after that. What’s the importance here? Between these are generally the years of childbearing, an essential facet in God’s plan, so much that it has even been said that women “shall be saved in childbearing” (1 Tim. 2:15), and where true joy of it compensated the pain felt by Eve from the Fall. (Moses 5:11)

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