threescore and sixe dayes] Which with the two weekes of strictest separation, made up eightie dayes; just twice as long as for the birth of a male child; for this some seek for reasons in nature, and affirme that after a female birth the purgings sometimes are not wholly ended untill the eightieth day, whereas after a male they use not to continue above fortie dayes; So Hippocr. de natura pueri; Vales. de sacra philos. Chap. 18. But others deny this, and hold it a vaine thing to search for naturall reasons for this prescript, as taking it to be purely ceremoniall (as circumcision was), which yet may morally minde women of their originall causalitie in sinne wherein they had the first hand, 1 Timothy 2:14. which is the greatest uncleannesse of all others, that they may be lesse proud, and more holy; yet it might be, that the longer time was taken for a female birth then for a male, because the male was circumcised, the female was not; but this reason will not reach to the proportion forementioned.