At vero Petrus cum Romae praedicaret, memor quia Dominus prima sabbati resurrexit a mortuis, ac mundo spem resurrectionis contulit, ita pascha faciendum intellexit, ut secundum consuetudinem ac praecepta legis, quartam decimam lunam primi mensis, aeque sicut Iohannes, orientem ad vesperam semper exspectaret: et hac exorta, si Dominica dies, quae tune prima sabbati vocabatur, erat mane ventura, in ipsa vespera pascha Dominicum celebrare incipiebat, quomodo et nos hodie facere solemus.
But in truth Peter preaching at Rome, remembering that the Lord rose again from the dead the first day after the Sabbath and gave therewith the hope of resurrection to the world, understood that Easter must be kept in such sort that, according to the custom and commandments of the Law, he ever looked (even as John did) for the rising of the moon at evening in the 14th day of his age, in the first month: and at the rising thereof, if Sunday (which then was called the first day after the Sabbath) was to come on the morrow, he began on that very evening to observe the Lords Pasch, as we too are wont to do to-day.
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