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Golden Number

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ISBE 1915

ISBE 1915

gold'-'-n num'-ber: Used in the regulation of the ecclesiastical calendar, in the "Metonic cycle" of 19 years, which almost exactly reconciles the natural month and the solar year.

See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain

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