Note 1010 — Chapter XI · THE POOR.
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“To shipmen it is commanded, like as it also is to husbandmen, that they should give unto God the tenth part of all the increase upon their stock, and moreover give alms from the nine parts that are their own. And so is it commanded to every man that from the same craft wherewith he provides for his body’s need, he provide for that of his soul also, which is better than the body.” Ecc. Institutes. Thorpe, ii. 432. “O homo, inde Dominus decimas expetit, unde vivis. De militia, de negotio, de artificio redde decimas.” St. Augustine, cited by Ecgb. Excerp. 102. Thorpe, ii. 112.