What is "fourty"

Usage examples of "fourty".

According to that Cabalistical Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter added unto his Name, he had remained fruitlesse, and without the power of generation: Not only because hereby the number of his Name attained two hundred fourty eight, the number of the affirmative precepts, but because as in created natures there is a male and female, so in divine and intelligent productions, the mother of Life and Fountain of souls in Cabalisticall Technology is called Binah.