'Course' in the Bible

Now while he was doing priestly duty before God in the prescribed course of his class,

and in course of time his wife Elizabeth conceived, and kept herself secluded five months.

"Go," He replied, "and take this message to that fox: "'See, to-day and to-morrow I am driving out demons and effecting cures, and on the third day I finish my course.'

"But in course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and had a funeral.