beginning, as it is written in another passage: “Remember your congregation, which you have gotten of old.”62 Moreover, the first fruits are to be given to the priests,63 not to their enemies. And what follows, “All who ate of it became guilty; evil came on them, says the Lord,” has this sense: just as those who eat of the first fruits who are not from the priestly line are answerable for their crime, so also those who defile Israel will be subjected to evils, as the saint says in the twenty-sixth