XII.
But this again is held by other wise and most acute men
to be an impossibility, because within that narrow and most contracted
limit of a cycle of nineteen years, a thoroughly genuine Paschal time,
that is to say, one held on the Lord’s day and yet after the
equinox, cannot occur. But, in order that we may set in a clearer
light the difficulty which causes their incredulity, we shall set down,
along with the courses of the moon, that cycle of years which we have
mentioned; the days being computed before in which the year rolls on in
its alternating courses, by Kalends and Ides and Nones, and by the
sun’s ascent and descent.