Chapter IX.
Conclusion of the fourth day. How futile it is to beware of him; and from where the offense of demons and pagans is derived against him.
34. Beautifully, as I believe, the fourth day has passed. So how then do most people usually take care on the fourth, and think it useless to start anything with this number, with which the whole world emerged with new light? Or did the sun begin with sinister omens? And how can it be a good omen for others, who did not know how to choose the day of their own rising? Or how do they approve the signs of someone whose rising they do not approve? What do we even say about the moon, which began on the fourth day and marks the fourteenth day of salvation? Does the number by which the mystery of redemption is celebrated displease them? Therefore, demons persuade that number to be avoided, by which their wickedness is destroyed. Therefore, the gentiles assert that nothing is to be worshiped; because they know that it was then that their arts began to become void, and the gentile peoples migrated to the Church. Certainly, they believe that if the moon is in its fourth quarter, pure and without dull horns, it is a sign of serenity to be given on other days until the end of the month. Therefore, they do not want to begin with the same beginnings with which serenity begins. But now we must be careful that the fourth day does not pass us by in conversation; for the shadows grow larger from the mountains, the light diminishes, and the shadows accumulate.
Book Five. Of the Work of the Fifth Day.