107. See Thomassin, Discipline de l'Eglise, tom. iii. l. ii.
c. 13, 14, 15, p. 689-706. The legal division of the
ecclesiastical revenue does not appear to have been
established in the time of Ambrose and Chrysostom.
Simplichls and Gelasius, who were bishops of Rome in the
latter part of the fifth century, mention it in their
pastoral letters as a general law, which was already
confirmed by the custom of Italy