{"id": "card_n_ba0392c94b0e", "kind": "note", "title": "A parable — Forgive", "body": "Peter asked: how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times? The answer was: I say not unto thee, until seven times: but until seventy times seven. The arithmetic was a way of saying the math does not run out.\n\nAsk yourself: Are you counting? And if the count is finite, is it forgiveness?\n\nBROTHERS — established in the mouth of two or three. Seventy times seven (Mt 18:21-22) is not a number — it is the end of the counting.\n\n(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "url": "", "ref": "scripture_mt_18_22", "authority_tier": "operator"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "parables", "bands": ["parable", "original", "witness", "teaching", "authority_trust", "metabolism", "BROTHERS"], "connections": [], "author": "operator", "created_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10T21:00:05.284658+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "witness", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 0, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "afbea61c753514f33bbace9ef297b2976d1dd2a2f2624c8515d996ae25e8254a"}