ἑπτάκις τῆς ἡμέρας, seven times a day. The number recalls Peter's question (Matthew 18:21), and the phrase seven times a day states the duty of forgiving as broadly as Mt.'s seventy times seven, but not in so animated a style: more in the form of a didactic rule than of a vehement emotional utterance; obviously secondary as compared with Mt.

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Old Testament