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What the Fathers say

Exodus 16:36

Eastern Fathers

Clement of Alexandria

Anyway, when the instruction is given to consecrate in a golden vessel the memorial of the food sent down by God from heaven, "the gomor," it is written, "is a tenth part of three measures." For our purposes, "three measures" means three sources of judgment: perception of sensible objects; reason, for evaluating sentences, nouns and verbs; and the intellect, for intelligible objects.

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