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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

kon-tin'-u-ans: Not in the Revised Version (British and American); in Ps 139:16 the King James Version, as an interpretation of Hebrew yamim, "days," treating of God's prevision, where the Revised Version (British and American) has: "They were all written, even the days that were ordained for me," i.e. all my days were in view, before one of them actually existed. In Isa 64:5 the King James Version, for `olam, "of long time," the Revised Version (British and American); in Ro 2:7, for hupomone, "patience," the Revised Version (British and American), or still better, "steadlfastness," the Revised Version, margin.