If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech
seventy
and sevenfold.
] Which if understood of him as confessing and lamenting his sin
of murder, the sense is, if Cain was so severely punished for
killing one man, of how much sorer punishment am I deserving, and
shall have, who have killed two persons, and that after I had
seen the punishment of Cain, and yet took no warning by it? or if
he that killed Cain, who slew his brother, was to be avenged
sevenfold, or to seven generations, then how much more, or
longer, shall he be avenged, that shall slay me, who have slain
none, or however not designedly; and therefore you may be easy
and quiet, your fears, either from God or man, are groundless.
Genesis 4:24
