5. Hence it is that our Lord Himself also, when He had performed His wonderful works upon the earth, as if the faith of human minds were now established, observed that it was the time of His Passion, saying, _Father, the hour is come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee_. For He teaches elsewhere that He sought this glory of celebrating His Passion, where He says, _Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected_. In them indeed is Jesus perfected, who begin to be perfect, that with their faith they may believe on the fulness of His Divinity and His Redemption. Sidenote: Ps. cxix. 126. Sidenote: Eccl. iii. 1. Sidenote: Jerem. viii. 7. Sidenote: Isaiah i. 3. 6. Therefore we seek out both the day and the hour, as the Scripture teaches us. The prophet David also says, _It is time for thee, Lord, to work_, when he sought understanding to know the testimonies of the Lord. The Preacher also saith, _To every thing there is a season_; Jeremy exclaims, _The turtle and the swallow and the sparrows of the ground observe the time of their coming_. But what can appear more evident than that it is of the Passion of our Lord that it is said, _The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib_? Let us then acknowledge this _crib of our Master_, wherein we are nourished, fed, and refreshed. Sidenote: Isa. xlix. 8. Sidenote: 2 Cor. vi. 2. 7. We ought therefore especially to know this time, at which over the universal world the accordant prayers of the sacred night are to be poured forth; for prayers are commended by season also, as it is written, _In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee_. This is the time of which the Apostle said, _Behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation_. 8. Accordingly, since, even after the calculations of the Egyptians, and the definitions of the church of Alexandria, and also of the Bishop of the church of Rome, several persons are still waiting my judgement by letter, it is needful that I should write what my opinion is about the day of the Passover. For though the question which has arisen is about the approaching Paschal day, yet we state what we think should be maintained for all subsequent time, in case any question of the kind should come up. Sidenote: Exod. xiii. 4. Sidenote: Exod. xii. 2. Sidenote: Lev. xxiii. 5.