THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Notes on Book of Leviticus (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))

19:23 Firstfruits: Proeputia, literally, their foreskins; it alludes to circumcision, and signifies that for the first three years the trees were to be as uncircumcised, and their fruit unclean: till in the fourth year their increase was sanctified and given to the Lord, that is, to the priests.

Original Douay-Rheims from Project Gutenberg - Massive cleanup of OCR problems and editing done locally.