seventy-times

Updated: May 19, 2025

Paul of old, and "whatsoever things are true, venerable, just, pure, lovely, and of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, to think on these things," on these scattered fragmentary sacraments of Him whose number is not two, nor seven, "but seventy-times seven;" that is the way I think, the only way to be ready to recognise our Saviour, and to prepare to meet our God; that He may be to us, too, as a refiner's fire, and refine us our thoughts, our deeds, our characters throughout.

Charles Kingsley - All Saints' Day and Other Sermons