'Course' in the Bible
We heard him saying, I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
And it came to pass, as he fulfilled his priestly service before God in the order of his course,
And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.
Having sailed therefore away from Troas, we went in a straight course to Samothracia, and on the morrow to Neapolis,
But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.
And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.
Whence, going in a circuitous course, we arrived at Rhegium; and after one day, the wind having changed to south, on the second day we came to Puteoli,
teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,
and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.