I will tell you what it means that the just man falls seven times each day. It means that insofar as the will of the just man is completely given over to the comtemplation of the divine goodness without any impediment, the body is feeble and tends towards defect because of the nourishment of the sin of Adam and thus is inclined often to give attention to lesser things than the goodness of God. And Scripture calls this a fall, for so it is. But the will of the just man is kept from consenting to the defect, which could grow from such an inclination. So such a fall, by which the just man falls through the above said inclination, is more virtuous for him than vice, because of his will, which remains free through the refusal of all defect, as has been said. Now, you can see how the just man falls so low from so high, and how this fall, however low it might be, is more virtuous than vice.
Now pay attention. Since the just man falls seven times each day, it is necessary that he be lifted seven times, else he could not fall seven times. The one is blessed who often falls, for it follows that he came from the place where no one goes if he does not have, by righteousness, the name of "just." However, the one is the most blessed who always remains there. No one is able to always be there as long as the soul is accompanied by this wretched body in this world; but this fall does not cause the loss of peace through guilt or remorse of conscious, for the Soul lives by the peace of the gifts given to he above the Virtues -- not contrary to the Virtues, but above. If this could not be, the God would be subject to His Virtues, and the Virtues would be contrary to the Soul, Virtues who have their being from the Lord, for the sake of the profit of the Soul.