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Num_5:7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth [part] thereof, and give [it] unto [him] against whom he hath trespassed.
Ver. 7. Then they shall confess their sin.] So they were bound to do, all their sins. {Pro_28:13 Job_33:27-28} Confessio peccati est medicina peccati, saith Nazianzen; a sin acknowledged is half amended.
And he shall recompense his trespass.] Restitution must be made of goods unjustly detained, or else you shall cough in hell, said Mr Latimer. Our King Henry VII, in his last will and testament, after the disposing of his soul and body, he devised and willed restitution should be made, of all such moneys as had unjustly been levied by his officers. {a} So did Selymus the great Turk give orders at his death for the restoring and recompensing of the great treasure he had taken from the Persian merchants. {b}
{a} Speed’s Hist., fol. 995.
{b} Turk. Hist., fol. 767.