it, and therefore did not do it, will suffer a less severe beating, as the Savior says.2 Accordingly, he says, Do not rejoice, as do the peoples: while they have been deceived from the womb, you by contrast were schooled in the Law, and yet you have been faithless to your God. What was the form of its infidelity? It was fond of payment, not from God but rather from the heifers and Baal, despite their giving nothing to those who asked. Where did it seek payment from them? On every threshing floor;