This pitiless ingratitude, when reported to the King, was punished by him in the same way. The governor was himself flung into prison until the impossible debt of two million pounds should be settled. In this way Our Lord drives home the truth that other people’s offences against us are trivial, when compared with our own against God. No wonder he altered the seven times, which St Peter had thought to be a fairly generous offer, to seventy times seven, meaning that you and I are to forgive other people times without number.