De Plantatione

for to the entire tribe which came to him as a fugitive and a suppliant, he did not think fit to allot only a portion of land, as he did to the other eleven tribes, but he chose that they should receive an especial honour, namely, the priesthood, a possession not of earth, but of heaven. "For thou shalt not be," says God, as Moses represents, "a portion to the tribe of Levi, nor any inheritance among the children of Israel, because the Lord himself is their inheritance." [*](Deuteronomy x. 9. ) And again he speaks in the person of God, in his holy oracles, in this manner: "I am thy portion and inheritance." [*](Numbers xviii. 20. )