And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him - that is, 'however often;' seven being the number of completeness. So that this is not a lower measure of forgiving love than the "seventy-times seven times" was, enjoined upon Peter; because that was merely because Peter had asked if he was to stop at seven times-to which the reply was, 'No, not though it should come to seventy times that number.' See the notes at Matthew 18:21-22.