420 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAP. XI. For the Jews withdrew a tenth part from alltheirproduce, and gave it in alms,which rarelya Christiandoes. There fore they mocked Him, forsaying this to them as to men who did not give alms. God knowing this adds,But woe unto you,Pharisees! for ye tithemint and rue and allmanner of herbs,and pass overjudgment and the loveof God. This then isnot givingalms. For to givealms isto shew mercy. If thou art wise,begin with thyself:forhow art thou mer cifulto another,if cruelto thyself? Hear the Scripture, which says unto thee,Have mercy on thy own soul,and 80,23- please Qod. Return unto thy conscience,thou that livest in evilor unbelief,and then thou findestthy soul begging, or perhaps struckdumb with want. In judgment and love givealms to thy soul. What isjudgment ? Do what isdis pleasingto thyself.What is charity? Love God, love thy neighbour. If thou neglectestthisalms,loveas much as you like,thou doestnothing,sincethou doestitnot to thyself. CYRIL. Or He says it by way of censure upon the Phari sees,who orderedthosepreceptsonly to be strictlyobserved by theirpeople,which were the cause of fruitfulreturnsto themselves. Hence they omitted not even the smallest herbs,but despisedthe work of inspiringlove to God, and the justawarding ofjudgment. THEOPHYL. For becausethey despisedGod, treatingsacred things with indifference,He commands them to have love to God; but by judgment He impliesthe love of our neighbour. For when a man judges hisneighbourjustly,itproceedsfrom hisloveto him. AMBROSE. Or judgment, because they do uot bring to examinationeverythingthat they do ; charity,becausethey lovenot God with theirheart.But that He might not make us zealousof the faith,to the neglect of good works, He sums up the perfectionof a good man in a few words, these ought ye to have done, and not to leavethe other undone. CHRYS. Where indeed the subjecttreatedwas the Jewish cleansing,He altogetherpassed it by, but as the titheis Matt. a kind of almsgiving,and the time was not yet come for absolutelydestroyingthe customs of the law,thereforeHe says,theseoughtye to have done. AMBROSE. He reprovesalsothe arroganceof the boasting Jews in seeking the pre-eminence: forit follows,Woe unto