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| Chapter III. Of the offering of tithes and firstfruits.
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Chapter III.
Of the offering of tithes and firstfruits.
For indeed by the
Lord’s command tithes were consecrated to the service of the
Levites, but oblations and firstfruits for the priests.2163
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
enacted, are thus shown to be not under the law, as they try not only
to fulfil but even to exceed the righteousness of the law, and their
devotion is greater than the legal requirement, as it goes beyond the
observance of precepts and adds to what is due of its own free
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