2 Samuel 12:6

And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

Ver. 6. And he shall restore the lamb fourfold.] Nay, twice fourfold, as some sense it; because the word is of the dual number. But what! Must he do all this, and die too? This was hard law, better beseeming a Draco to pronounce, than a David: but he was transported and biassed, as above said. a

a Prompte et fervide sententiam pronunciat.