। ॥ ३८ ॥
In plain words
'This is that brahmin' — a sentence like this tells you, right from the first hearing, both things at once: the one marked out by that earlier time, and the one bound up with this present time.
Close to the Sanskrit
'That (is) this brahmin' — this sentence makes known, from the very beginning, in that way what is qualified by belonging to that time, and likewise what is joined with this time.