And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Ver. 18. Seven times more.] God will have the better of us, and good reason: for is it fit that he should cast down the bucklers first? Illud quidem sic habeto, said the orator, a nisi sanatus animus sit, quod sine philosophia fieri non potest, finem miseriarum nullum fore, Be sure of this; if thy mind mend not, there will be no end of thy misery.
a Tusc. Quae., Cic. iii.