Bede, on 1Sam 8:15

“Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and servants.”

“But he will also tithe your fields and the incomes of your vineyards, etc. But the ancient corrupter will wholly deprive you of your works, almost brought to the perfection of nature, and the hope of all your life with heavenly reward, which is signified by the number ten, so that he may restore the insatiable desires of those wicked spirits serving him, whom, once stripped of angelic virtue, he made to hunger for human destruction, by the damage of these things.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.