cripture that he is to be condemned who does not fast on this or
that day. Therefore we ought not and shall not believe them.

Now St. Peter says further:

V. 11. _Which spirit testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ,
and the glory that should thereafter be revealed._ This may be
understood of both kinds of suffering,--that which Christ, and we
also, suffer. St. Paul calls the sufferings of all Christians the
suffering of Christ. For just as the faith, the name, the word and
work of Christ are mine, inasmuch as I believe on Him, so His
suffering is also mine, since I suffer also for His sake. Thus will
the sufferings of Christ be daily fulfilled in Christians, until the
end of the world.

This is then our consolation in all the sufferings that we
experience, that all that we suffer Christ shares with us, that He
accounts it all as His own suffering. And of this we are assured,
that speedily after suffering glory shall follow. But this we must
also understand, that Christ was not glorified before He suffered, so
that we are to bear our cross with Him first, that afterward we may
share His joy.

All that we now preach, he says, the prophets previously foretold and
described in the most explicit manner, just as the Holy Spirit
revealed it to them. That we so imperfectly understand the prophets
is, because we do not understand their language, since they have
spoken clearly enough. Therefore they that are acquainted with the
language, and have the Spirit of God, which all believers have, to
them it is not difficult of apprehension since they know the scope of
all Scripture. But if any one does not understand their language, and
has not the spirit, or a christian apprehension, it might seem to him
as though the prophets were drunken and full of new wine; although
where we must want one, the spirit without the language is better
than the language without the spirit. The prophets have a peculiar
phraseology, but the sentiment is the same which the Apostles preach,
for both have spoken largely of the suffering and of the glory of
Christ, as well as of those things that relate to faith. As when
David speaks of Christ (Ps. xxi.), "I am a worm and no man," whereby
he shows how deeply he is cast down and despondent in his suffering.
Likewise, also, he writes of his people and of the affliction of
Christians, in Psalm xlv.: "We are despised, and accounted as sheep
for the slaughter."

V. 12. _That not for their own s