OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 11:35

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As for the other payments to us from henceforth, of the tithes and the taxes that pertain to us, and the salt pits, and the crown taxes due to us, all these we will give back to them.

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Verse 35. Of them. He remits only the arrears, (Grot.) or all future claims, which are given up to the priests. Bible.—Pans, or “lakes.” Some would substitute ( Calmet.) τιμας, “dues,” but without necessity. Bible.—The lake of Sodom furnished salt of a sharper and more digestive nature than the other. Galien iv. 19. See Calmet. 10:29.

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