Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 25:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 297, footnote 3 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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To Optimus the bishop. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3149 (In-Text, Margin)

... of the remission of sins. “How often,” it is asked, “shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him?” (It is Peter who is speaking to the Lord.) “Till seven times?” Then comes the Lord’s answer, “I say not unto thee, until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.” Our Lord did not vary the number, but multiplied the seven, and so fixed the limit of the forgiveness. After seven years the Hebrew used to be freed from slavery. Seven weeks of years used in old times to make the famous jubilee,[Leviticus 25:10] in which the land rested, debts were remitted, slaves were set free, and, as it were, a new life began over again, the old life from age to age being in a sense completed at the number seven. These things are types of this present life, which ...