In the eleventh year there would be 31 extra days.
Therefore the eleventh lunar year would be a leap
year with one day left over to be added to the succeeding
year.
In the twelfth solar year there would be 12 extra
days.
In the thirteenth year there would be 23 extra days.
In the fourteenth year there would be 34 extra days.
Therefore the fourteenth lunar year would be a leap
year with four days left over to be added to the succeeding
year.
In the fifteenth solar year there would be 4 plus 11,
or 15 extra days.
In the sixteenth year there would be 26 extra days.
Therefore the sixteenth lunar year would be a leap
year by borrowing four days from the succeeding year.
In the seventeenth solar year there would be 11
minus 4, or 7 extra days.
In the eighteenth year there would be 18 extra days.
In the nineteenth year there would be 29 extra days.
Therefore the last lunar year is leap year, the 13th
month comprising 29 days only.
This cycle, repeated continuously, would keep the
lunar solar years correlated, and make it possible to fix
Easter’s date infinitum. It would always follow the Passover
but never fall earlier than the first week of April and never be
later than the first week of May. Thus it would be confined,
as it should, to the range of spring and harvest.
elle
(Elle)
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