Job 38:32

"To raise Mazuroth at the appointed time, and bring the evening star to the place prepared for it? To understand this passage, is it necessary to study, in astronomy, the properties of all these stars? I would be surprised if this were necessary: ​​it would be a long work, we will not stop there. Should we not rather, under the name of a few stars, understand all the stars, taking the part for the whole? I suppose that Mazuroth is a star, for there is no Greek word that corresponds to it; we see enough that it is a Hebrew expression. In the following passage: "I begot you before Lucifer (4)," the game is also taken for the whole. Lucifer was not the first of all creatures, and before Lucifer did not mean before any creature. But here Lucifer means all the stars; it is, I repeat, the part for the whole, and by all the stars, all the times must be heard; for it is the stars that are said: "They will serve as signs to mark the times" (5). Therefore the Lord was born before all times, not in time; so he is co-eternal with the Father. To name only the Pleiades, the Orion, Mazuroth, and the evening star, is therefore to name all the stars by the name of some. Since elsewhere with Lucifer we designate them all, even more so can we do it here, where so many stars are named. But why is it said of one: "to distinguish the links," of the others "to open, to disperse; Of this: "to raise at the appointed time; From that one: "to bring to the place prepared for it? Are these expressions exclusively specific to the stars they distinguish? Could we not say: Have you, before the circle of the Pleiades, distinguished the links of the stars of the Orlon? We can sometimes change the words of two sentences; for example, in this passage from the Psalms: "He who dwells in heaven will laugh at them, the Lordships will make a mockery," the thought would remain absolutely the same if it were said: He who dwells in heaven will make fun of them. the Lord will laugh at them; for the Lord is the same as he who dwells in heaven. For a similar reason the name of the Pleiades here has the same meaning as that of the Orlon, because both designate all the stars, and the stars that we have just named represent to us in the same relations the faithful of the Church whose conversation is in heaven (1). Their bonds consist in attaching themselves to each other and to God, so as not to fall. But…

Dost thou bring forth the morning star at its time, and dost thou make the evening star to rise over the sons of earth? For the Father brought forth the morning star in his season, because, as it is written; When the fulness of the time was come, God sent His Son born of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that are under the Law. Who being born of a Virgin, appeared as the morning star, amid the darkness of our night, because, having put to flight the obscurity of sin, He announced to us the eternal morn. But He made Himself known as the morning star, because He arose in the morn from death, and overcame, by the brightness of His light, the hideous darkness of our mortality. Who is well called by John; The bright and morning star. For, appearing alive after death, He became our morning star; because while He furnished us in His own person an instance of resurrection, He pointed out what light comes after. But the Lord makes the evening star to rise over the sons of earth, because He permits Antichrist to hold sway over the unbelieving hearts of the Jews, as their desert demands. And they are therefore justly subjected by the Lord to this evening star, because they chose of their own accord to be the sons of earth. For by seeking after earthly, and not heavenly things, they were so blinded as not to behold the brightness of our morning star; and while they seek for the evening star to rule over them, they are plunged in the eternal night of subsequent damnation. Hence the Lord says in the Gospel, I came in My Father's name, and ye received Me not; another will come in his own name, and him ye will receive. Hence Paul says; Because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, for this cause God shall send them the operation of error, that they should believe a lie, that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but consented to iniquity. The evening star therefore would never rise over them, if they had wished to be the sons of heaven. But while they seek after visible things, having lost the light of the heart, they are in darkness under the prince of night. [MORAL INTERPRETATION] But if we examine this in a moral sense, we find how it is daily occurring; because both the morning star doubtless rises on the Elect, and the evening star, by God's permission, rules over the reprobate. For there is one and the same word of…