Wherefore, “if you bring an offering of first-fruits,” make such division as Holy Writ prescribes (Lev. 2:14). First the new, then the roasted, then the sliced, and last the ground. The new is for the following reason. To those who cling to the old-world days with their fabled past and have not realized the instantaneous and timeless power of God, it is a lesson bidding them accept ideas that are new and fresh and in the vigour of youth. It bids them feed no more on effete fables, which the long course of the ages has handed down for the deception of mortal kind, and thus be filled with false opinions, but rather receive in full and generous measure new, fresh, blessed thoughts from the ever ageless God. So shall they be schooled to understand that with Him nothing is ancient, nothing at all past, but all is in its birth and existence timeless.
On the Sacrifices of Abel and Cain 21
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