Tithe typed Christ/Melchizedek; Levi separate census; given to Aaron

Cyril: …die.’ Do you see the mystery of Christ as still in shadows, and shining-before in types? For the one taking tenths has been tenthed, according to blessed Paul’s voice. But then at least the type in Melchizedek, and in times according to Moses has been kept again as in Aaron, the priest of the priests Christ signifying upon himself the leader, and set over the holy tent—that is the Church—the Holy of holies, and God of gods, to whom every fruit-bearing from us is owed. For it has been written that ‘All those around him will bring gifts.’ (Hebrews 7:9–10) But the Mosaic things still in types, and now with spiritual fruit-bearings the genuine keepers of the Gospel ordinances make glad their own Redeemer.

Palladius: You spoke well.

Cyril: And that the Levitical race is chosen-out, and set apart from the others, he makes clear according to some such manner. He ordered the popular to be numbered, and an accurate reckoning of the herd multitude to be made—not with the Creator having been ignorant. For drops of rain have been numbered for him, according to what has been written, and nothing would escape the pure mind—but in order that those lighting upon the sacred Writings may know also very clearly that those lying upon God and having been named his people go in enrollments the with God, and in a book of life, and numbered among the known, and already in memories of the Master of all. So then the popular was being enrolled, and God was setting as it were apart the chosen-out and sacred race, and was not releasing it from somewhere in equal rank with the others, but was storing up for it as it were the outstanding share, saying toward Moses the all-wise: ‘See the tribe of Levi, you will not visit-together the number of them, and you will not take in midst of the sons of Israel.’ (Psalm 76:11) For exceptional is the lot of the saints, and in superiorities the prizes. And somehow also in other books is the enrollment; for all-divine Daniel has not beheld one, but as he himself says: ‘A tribunal sat, and books were opened.’ (Job 36:27) So then according to analogous measures of each is the enrollment. And the race distributed and dedicated to the divine sacred-works has been as it were set out from the other multitude, and straightway he was clarifying the manner of the Levites’ sacred-work saying: ‘Take the tribe of Levi, and you will set them opposite Aaron the priest, and they will liturgize for him, and they will keep his watches, and the watches of the sons of Israel before the tent of the witness, to work the works of the tent; and they will keep all the vessels of the tent of the witness, and the watches of the sons of Israel according to all the works of the tent. And you will give the Levites to Aaron your brother, and to his sons the priests; given as a gift these are to me from the sons of Israel, and Aaron and his sons you will set upon the tent of the witness. And they will keep their priesthood, and all the things according to the altar, and inside the veil; and the alien who touches will die.’ (Daniel 7:10) So then the (Numbers 1:49) (Numbers 3:6–10)