Though many women are mentioned in the Bible, the age of only one (Sarah, Abraham’s wife) is recorded, and that to show at her advanced age she would become the mother of Isaac.
“Elizabeth, the mother of the Baptist,” we are told by St. Luke, “was well-stricken in age.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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