The husbandman who laboureth [3] must first partake. Both the Latin and Greek texts admit of two interpretations: the sense may either be, that it is fitting the husbandman partake first and before others of the fruits of his labours, or that he must first labour and then partake. (Witham)

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Laborantem Agricolam, oportet primum de fructibus percipere, It has the same ambiguity in the Greek.

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