seventie and seven fold] Some take the words for seventy times seven, which make up fonre hundred and ninetie times; but it is seventie times and seven times, as Genesis 7:2. According to the Hebrew the words are, of every cleane beast thou shalt take thee seven seven, that is, not seven times seven, nor two sevens, though the word be doubled; but it is, (as it is well rendred in our Translation) by sevens: so in the sixth of Marke, vers. 7. when our Saviour sent out the twelve by two and two, he sent them not out by fours, but by severall twoos. The meaning of Lamechs words may seeme to be this, that Cains impunitie might be his securitie, since though he had had his hand in bloud, it was not in the bloud of his naturall brother, nor with contumacie against God after the manner of Cain; and therefore if any one should kill him, he should be punished much more, seventie and seven fold; a certaine number put for an uncertaine: as vers. 15. See the Annot. there. Thus a wicked man turnes the Divine patience into humane presumption.