Veronica Eberlein’s Reviews > Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again > Status Update

“The number forty carries special significance in Scripture, particularly in its deliverance stories. Rather than an exact enumeration of time, forty symbolizes a prolonged period of hardship, waiting, and wandering—a liminal space between the start of something and its fruition that often brings God’s people into the wilderness, into the wild unknown.”