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Chapter
XII.—Astrologers.
“Therefore the astrologers,841
| 841 [On the error of
astrology compare book x. 7–12. In Homily XIV. 5 and
elsewhere “genesis” and the science of astrology are
identified.]—R. | being ignorant of such mysteries, think
that these things happen by the courses of the heavenly bodies:
hence also, in their answers to those who go to them to consult them as
to future things, they are deceived in very many instances. Nor
is it to be wondered at, for they are not prophets; but, by long
practice, the authors of errors find a sort of refuge in those things
by which they were deceived, and introduce certain Climacteric Periods, that they may pretend a knowledge of
uncertain things. For they represent these Climacterics as times of danger, in which one sometimes is
destroyed, sometimes is not destroyed, not knowing that it is not the
course of the stars, but the operation of demons, that regulates these
things; and those demons, being anxious to confirm the error of
astrology, deceive men to
sin by mathematical calculations, so that when they suffer the
punishment of sin, either by the permission of God or by legal
sentence, the astrologer may seem to have spoken truth. And yet
they are deceived even in this; for if men be quickly turned to
repentance, and remember and fear the future judgment, the punishment
of death is remitted to those who are converted to God by the grace of
baptism.
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