Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Ver. 28. Seven times for your sins.] God will not cease pursuing till Sheba's head be thrown over the wall. Three times in this chapter God raiseth his note of threatening, and he raiseth it by sevens, and those are discords in music. Such sayings will be heavy songs, and their execution heavy pangs to the wicked. In musical notes there are but eight degrees; and then the same returns again. Philosophers, when they distinguish degrees in qualities, do usually make the eighth degree to be the highest. But in the wrath of God against impenitents here in this chapter, Leviticus 26:18; Leviticus 26:21; Leviticus 26:24; Leviticus 26:28, there are no fewer than twenty-eight degrees threatened, as is well observed. a
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