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But ye, O priests, principally and first; the people next, by their examples;
have profaned it; used it as a common thing, and valued it at a strange undervalue, as if neither excellent nor useful.
Ye say; by your deportment you say so; perhaps you do not say so in words, this were two impudent indeed.
The table of the Lord is polluted; not a sacred thing, or to be revered.
His meat; either the meat which fell to the priests’ share, and was for them to live upon, this they despised; or else the portion which did belong to God himself, and was laid upon the altar; they were neither pleased with that the Lord did reserve to himself, nor with that he gave to them, but they found fault with both.
Is contemptible; a poor, sordid allowance, scarce fit for meaner persons and less service.