IV.
But this Aristobulus also adds, that for the feast of
the Passover it was necessary not only that the sun should pass the
equinoctial segment, but the moon also. For as there are two
equinoctial segments, the vernal and the autumnal, and these
diametrically opposite to each other, and since the day of the Passover
is fixed for the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, the moon
will have the position diametrically opposite the sun; as is to be seen
in full moons. And the sun will thus be in the segment of the
vernal equinox, and the moon necessarily will be at the autumnal
equinox.