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τῷ μακρῷ χρόνῳ, ‘the whole duration of human life’ (cf. v. 9. 3 for a different sense).

The Greek ‘limit’, like that of Psalm xc. 10, varied from seventy to eighty years (cf. iii. 22 for the latter, and Solon frag. 27 (l. 17) and 20 ὀγδωκονταέτη μοῖρα κίχοι θανάτου for the two limits respectively).

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