The same. — 'Every one in his day.' 28. Hearers are to be fed according to the measure of their understanding. — If the darkness of ignorance is without doubt the night of the heart, understanding is not undeservedly called day. Whence also through Paul it is said: 'One judgeth one day above another day, another judgeth every day' (Rom. xiv, 5). As if he plainly said: One understands certain things, some being omitted; but another knows all things that can be seen by the understanding, just as they are. Each son therefore furnishes a feast on his own day, because each holy preacher, according to the measure of his enlightened understanding, feeds the minds of his hearers with the banquets of truth. On his own day Paul had made a feast, when he said:
'They will be more blessed if they so remain, according to my counsel' (1 Cor. vii, 40). Concerning his own day he admonished each to consider, when he said: 'Let every one abound in his own sense' (Rom. xiv, 5). There follows: