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She discovers that he has left the room numerous times. When she interrogates him about this, she says, “Because the principle doesn’t change if you were out seven times, or seventy, or seventy times seven.” Then she decides to amputate his leg to hobble him. [7]
A jubilee is a special year of remission of sins, debts and universal pardon. In Leviticus, a jubilee year is mentioned to occur every 50th year(7x7= Lev 25 v8-NRSV); during which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.
The Talmud (Arakhin 12b) accounts for 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and 7 years taken to conquer the land of Canaan and 7 years to divide the land among the tribes, putting the first Jubilee cycle precisely 54 years after the exodus (i.e. in 1258 BC), and saying that the people of Israel counted 17 Jubilees from the time they entered ...
Calvin's interpretation is perhaps better supported by the nature of the parable and by the Greek text, [7] [10] [11] in which "for she loved much" can be read as the result, rather than the cause, of "her many sins have been forgiven." [7] [10] [11] Many modern translations, both Protestant and Catholic, reword verse 47 for clarity, e.g.:
The teachers say that only God can forgive one's sins; some [who?] see Exodus 34:6–7 and Isaiah 43:25 and 44:22 as proof of this claim. Mark thus leaves it implied that Jesus is God and that faith in his power can lead to not just a cure of physical ills but to a forgiveness of a person's sins. [18]
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7–9 The angels intercede for true believers; 10–12 Infidels shall repent in hell, but in vain; 13–15 God to be worshipped as the Supreme Being; 16–18 Judgement Day shall come suddenly; 19–21 Ungodly men shall have no intercessor; 22–23 Former infidels destroyed to warn those coming after; 24–25 Moses called a sorcerer and a liar
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