Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Numbers 5:9
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 503, footnote 6 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
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For indeed by the Lord’s command tithes were consecrated to the service of the Levites, but oblations and firstfruits for the priests.[Numbers 5:9-10] But this was the law of the firstfruits; viz., that the fiftieth part of fruits or animals should be given for the service of the temple and the priests: and this proportion some who were faithlessly indifferent diminished, while those who were very religious increased it, so that the one gave only the sixtieth part, and the other gave the fortieth part of their fruits. For the righteous, for whom the law is not ...