DOUBLE, Duplex. This word has many significations in the Scripture. Double Gen. xliii. 12. Exod. xvi. 22, 29.the money, Pecuniam duplicem. Double the food; Cibos duplices. Twice as much money and food.
A double Garment, vestis duplex, may mean a lined Habit, such as the High-Priest’s Pectoral was. Quadrangulum & duplex: or a compleat Habit, or suit of Judg. xvii. 10. 2 Kings v. 22.clothes, a cloak, and tunick. Vestem duplicem, or vestes mutatorias duplices.
Double sometimes signifies multitude: succepit de manu Domini duplicia pro omnibus peccatis suis. He was doubly punished, Jerem. xvii. 18. Duplici contritione contere illos: Destroy them with a double destruction; punish them severely. Reddam duplices iniquitates & peccata eorum: I will doubly punish their iniquities, or I will inflict Penalties upon them proportioned to their Iniquities. Duplicia mala invenies: Thou shalt receive twice as much evil, chastisements double to thy sins.
Double heart, double tongue, double mind are opposite to a simple, honest, sincere heart; a true tongue, a just, faithful, sincere mind, &c.