Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
Ver. 22. Until seventy times seven] i.e. Infinities, toties quoties. God multiplieth pardons, Isaiah 55:7; so should we. "Love covereth all sins," Proverbs 10:12, so large is the skirt of love's mantle. Between God and us the distance is infinite, and if it were possible, our love to him, and to our friends in him, our foes for him, should fill up that distance, and extend itself to infiniteness. We may without sin be sensible of injuries (a sheep is as sensible of a bite as a swine), but it must be with the silence of a sheep, or at utmost the mourning of a dove, not the roaring of a bear, or bellowing of a bull, when baited. All desire of revenge must be carefully cast out; and if the wrong doer say, I repent, you must say, I remit, and that from the heart; being herein like that king of England, of whom it is said that he never forgot anything but injuries. Every Christian should keep a continual jubilee, nexus solvendo et nexas remittendo, by loosing bonds and remitting wrongs, εορταζωμεν, 1 Corinthians 5:8 .