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Bibliotheca Sacra · Part II

Article XI. Of the Tythes and Oblations of the Jews.

CONCERNING Tythes, you may consult the Commentators upon Exodus xxii. 29. and Leviticus xvii. 30, &c.

Joseph. Scaliger, de Decimis. Vide Critic. Lond. in tom. i. p. 1322. and what Selden has written on the same Subject.

Sixtinus Amama, de Decimis Mosaicis Commentarius, in his Antibarbarus Biblicus, printed at Franekar, 1656, in 4to. and at London, 1668, in 4to. We shall speak of him elsewhere.

Misna Editionis Surenhus. t. 1. p. 76, 245, 306, t. 2. p. 108. We have already spoken of this Author.

Joan. Conradi Hottengeri, de Decimis Judæorum Exercitationes Decem, cum Epistolâ Adriani Relandi, 1713, in 4to. the whole printed at Leyden, 1713, in 4to.

Every thing relating to this Matter is here cleared from the sacred Writings, and those of the ancient Jews. Some Parts besides of sacred Antiquity are occasionally explained in this Treatise. As to the Author, see his Title in the Index.

Joan. Spencer, de Legib. Hebræorum Ritualibus, l. 3. c. 10. where he speaks of Tythes. See what we have said of him in the Article of Laws.

Augustus Varenius, trifolium sacrum, de primogenitis, primitiis & Decimis. Rostoch. 1646, in 4to. We shall speak in another Place both of him and his other Works.

Jul. Bartolocci, de oblationibus, decimis, donis, &c. Bibl. Rabb. t. 3. p. 115.

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