34. The Morning and
Evening Sacrifices of the Saint in His Life of Thought.
But if any one asks what the saint is to do in the time
between morning and evening, let him follow what takes place in the
cultus and infer from it the principle he asks for. In that case
the priests begin their offerings with the continual sacrifice, and
before they come to the continuous one of the evening they offer the
other sacrifices which the law prescribes, as, for example, that for
transgression, or that for involuntary offences, or that connected with
a prayer for salvation, or that of jealousy, or that of the Sabbath, or
of the new moon, and so on, which it would take too long to
mention. So we, beginning our oblation with the discourse of that
type which is Christ, can go on to discourse about many other most
useful things. And drawing to a close still in the things of
Christ, we come, as it were, to evening and night, when we arrive at
the bodily features of His manifestation.