“And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.”
He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins — the poor widow putting in two very small copper coins (lepta dyo, literally two leptons — the smallest coins in circulation, together worth about 1/64 of a day's wage): the contrast with the rich is established by the size of the gift.
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