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Book VIII. Concerning Gifts, and Ordinations, and the Ecclesiastical Canons.

XXX. The Same Apostle's Constitution Concerning First-Fruits and Tithes.

I1 the same make a constitution in regard to first-fruits and tithes. Let all first-fruits be brought to the bishop, and to the presbyters, and to the deacons,2 for their maintenance; but let all the tithe be for the maintenance of the rest of the clergy, and of the virgins and widows, and of those under the trial of poverty. For the first-fruits belong to the priests, and to those deacons that minister to them.

  1. The Oxford ms. reads: "I the same, Simon the Canaanite, make a constitution." ↩

  2. "Deacons" omitted in Oxford ms. and in Coptic. ↩

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