Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God, to you the word of this salvation is sent.27 For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets, which are read every sabbath, judging him have fulfilled them.28 And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.†29 And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.30 But God raised him up from the dead the third day:31 Who was seen for many days, by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the people.32 And we declare unto you, that the promise which was made to our fathers,33 This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.†
But since also they frame an account concerning the action of the zodiacal signs, to which they say the creatures that are procreated are assimilated, neither shall we omit this: as, for instance, that one born in Leo will be brave; and that one born in Virgo will have long straight hair, be of a fair complexion, childless, modest. These statements, however, and others similar to them, are rather deserving of laughter than serious consideration. For, according to them, it is possible for no Aethiopian to be born in Virgo; otherwise he would allow that such a one is white, with long straight hair and the rest. But I am rather of opinion, that the ancients imposed the names of received animals upon certain specified stars, for the purpose of knowing them better, not from any similarity of nature; for what have the seven stars, distant one from another, in common with a bear, or the five stars with the head of a dragon?
The psalm's verse numbering differs between the modern lectionary and the Douay-Rheims this library hosts, so the text isn't matched verse-for-verse here yet.
Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.2 In my Father’s house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.†3 And if I shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will take you to myself; that where I am, you also may be.4 And whither I go you know, and the way you know.5 Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.†
(vii. de Trin) For He who is the way doth not lead us into devious courses out of the way; nor does He who is the truth deceive us by falsehoods; nor does He who is the life leave us in the darkness of death.
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