In the Bible, seven is the number of completion. It goes back to the first week: God made the world in six days, and “on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day” (Genesis 2:2). From then on, seven marks something finished and whole. The first seven in Scripture is a day of rest, and Christians have long heard every later seven as an echo of that first week. “God…

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