Please expound upon this for us.
Show us how 70 was commonly described as 7 and 62 and 1 in the past or at any time.
You've taken my comment too literally.
I was not referring to that but to how time was often described back then..
In measures that differ in description from the measures we use to describe time today.
Case in point - fullness of time.
Due to that time back then when the passing of time was measured by how long a measure of sand took to fill full a container.
At other times, the passing of time was counted in divisions as when one divides up portions of varying amounts on an abacus.
Case in point; the First Nations of this country would have never said "walk a mile in another's moccasins."
As dividing the passing of length of time into miles was foreign to them.
Instead, they divided time by fullness of a moon and or season, and so on.
Nothing new there - "it is not for you to know the times, or the seasons the Father hath put in His own power."
Or as in "Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey."
The Lord used a lot of those kinds of colloquialism as divisions of one thing or another - like counting the cost, or adding a cubit, and such.
The things described in Scripture are so old that some "measure of time" invested in their history is worth "the time."
Though, secular history in such things is much more preferable to time in the bias of theologians of one school or another.
Again, you took my point too literally.
Just as some take Romans 1:11's "established" too literally.
Which only happens absent of lots of questions of many passages in a word study; etymology or history of a word and its variations and so on.
Because, beyond the much simpler doctrine "Christ died for our sins" much of the other involves a great many details.
As in 2 Thess. 2:3's "a falling away" which is actually defined all the way back in Daniel, et al (or together with other witnesses).
And again, in light of various, indeptj word studies in Greek, Hebrew, and in the Word's overall narrative, and history.
Stam had much of all that. O'Hair had much of all that. Baker had much of all that. Jordan has all that, and others like them.
Anyway...
Genesis 25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
