Today’s readings circle a single, demanding question: How does God give life, judge rightly, and know all things without becoming subject to change? Barnabas presses the Church to see itself as the true heir of the covenant, reading Israel’s history not as abandoned, but fulfilled in Christ and extended into a new creation shaped by the cross, the Sabbath, and the eighth day. Augustine then exposes the moral confusion of his former Manichaean life, showing how distorted views of creation and purity lead not to mercy, but to absurd cruelty and misplaced compassion. Aquinas brings the thread to its metaphysical center, arguing that knowledge belongs to God most perfectly—not as something acquired, but as identical with His very being—so that God knows all things by knowing Himself. Together, these readings confront false inheritances, fals ...