St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh Part 32

[1090] Cp. Ps. cxvi. 8.

[1091] Ezek. xviii. 4.

[1092] Rom. vii. 17, 20.

[1093] Ps. cxvi. 8.

[1094] For other comparisons of Malachy with Elijah, see _Life_, - 23; Serm. ii. - 8.

[1095] 2 Kings ii. 13.

[1096] Gen. x.x.xix. 12, 15 (vg.).

[1097] 2 Kings ii. 11.

[1098] Cant. i. 3, 4.

[1099] It is plain from - 7 that this sermon was preached on an anniversary of Malachy's death, _i.e._ on November 2, in a year later than 1148. I put it in 1149 because of its striking coincidences with the _Life_, which was written early in that year (see p. lxv). There is also a possible echo (- 3) of _De Cons._ i. which belongs to the same year (_P.L._ clx.x.xii. 723). These, together with two coincidences of phrase with other writings of St. Bernard, are pointed out in the notes. See _R.I.A._ x.x.xv. 260 ff.

[1100] 2 Cor. v. 6.

[1101] Rom. xii. 15.

[1102] Ps. lxviii. 3.

[1103] Ecclus. xliv. 7.

[1104] Ecclus. xliv. 16 (vg.).

[1105] Ecclus. xliv. 17.

[1106] Luke i. 75.

[1107] 1 Cor. ix. 18.--Cp. _Life_, - 43 (p. 84).

[1108] Eph. vi. 17.

[1109] Matt. xi. 30.

[1110] Ps. xvi. 5 (vg.).

[1111] Isa. xlviii. 20; Jer. xxv. 31.

[1112] Ps. ii. 8.

[1113] 2 Pet. ii. 1.

[1114] 1 Cor. vi. 20.

[1115] Acts xx. 28.

[1116] 2 Cor. xi. 7.

[1117] _Gratum erat munus gratuitum._

[1118] Matt. vi. 22; Luke xi. 34.

[1119] Hab. iii. 13.

[1120] Matt. vi. 22, 23; Luke xi. 34, 35.

[1121] Ps. cxi. 2 (vg.).

[1122] Gen. i. 31.

[1123] Ps. lxviii. 5.

[1124] 2 Cor. ix. 7.

[1125] 1 Cor. ix. 22.

[1126] Jas. iv. 6; 1 Pet. v. 5.

[1127] See _Life_, - 60.

[1128] 1 John iv. 6.

[1129] Printed text, _Ipse enim est._ With A I omit _enim_.

[1130] Josh. vii. 15, etc.

[1131] So A: _cicius_ (= _citius_) _ibat_ for _riuus ibat_ of the printed text.

[1132] The story is told much more fully in _Life_, -- 58, 59; where there are many similarities in phraseology to the present pa.s.sage. In both places it is connected with the miraculous blinding of the king, immediately preceding it here, immediately following it there.

[1133] Ps. lx.x.xvi. 5 (vg.).

[1134] Cp. the description of Malchus, _Life_, - 8: "He was reverenced by all, as the one father of all"; and of Malachy, - 33: "the loving father of all."

[1135] Matt. xxiii. 37.

[1136] Ps. lxi. 4 (vg.).

[1137] Cp. _Life_, - 42: "Neither s.e.x nor age, nor condition nor profession, is held in account."

[1138] Ps. x.x.xv. 10

[1139] Ps. iv. 4 (vg.).