letter reached Ireland. The date is therefore in or
before 1142. They would hardly have been sent till news had reached
St. Bernard that the site had been chosen (Lett. i, Sec. 2). Cp. p.
75, n. 4.

[951] The brothers sent from Clairvaux "sufficient in number for an
abbey" (_Life_, Sec. 39).

[952] Gen. xxiv. 63 ff.--Cp. _De Cons._ ii. 13, where the same passage
of Genesis is referred to. It is there (Sec. 12) explained that the
field is the world, which has been placed in charge of the Pope.

[953] Printed text _patribus_. I read _partibus_.

[954] Rom. ix. 29 (inexact quotation).

[955] 1 Cor. iii. 6.

[956] Mellifont had been founded a good while before the letter was
written. Christian had returned to Clairvaux; and now after further
instruction he was sent back, apparently as the bearer of the letter.
The house had made good progress, but the buildings were still far
from complete (Secs. 2, 3).

[957] Ps. cxix. 103.

[958] Ps. xxx. 4.

[959] 1 Cor. ii. 12.

[960] Rom. viii. 16.

[961] 1 Cor xv. 10.

[962] 1 Cor. iii. 22.

[963] Ps. lxxiv. 19 (vg.); Jer. xx. 13.

[964] 2 Cor. v. 12.

[965] 2 Cor. x. 17; 1 Cor. i. 31.

[966] 1 Sam. i. 18, etc.

[967] Ps. lxxx. 15.

[968] Apparently the returned brothers mentioned below.

[969] Cp. the passage quoted p. 170.

[970] 1 Thess. iv. 1.

[971] Josh. x. 6.

[972] The monks of Clairvaux seem to have been reluctant to undertake
work elsewhere, when St. Bernard desired them to do so (_V.P._ vii. 52
f.); and we have one instance of an abbot of a daughter house--Humbert
of Igny--who resigned his office and returned to Clairvaux against St.
Bernard's will (_Ep._ 141).

[973] Printed text, _fratrum_. Read _fratres_.

[974] Evidently Christian did not prove a satisfactory abbot. This may
in part account for the return of the monks who went with him to
Ireland.

[975] Of this Robert, apparently the architect of Mellifont, we know
nothing; for suggestions that he should be identified with one or
other of the monks of Clairvaux who bore the same name are mere
guesses.

[976] 1 Pet. i. 14 (vg., inexact quotation).

[977] Clearly this letter must have been penned a few days after
Malachy's death.

[978] Acts ix. 31, combined with John xiv. 26, etc.

[979] Heb. xiii. 14.

[980] Cp. Heb. iii. 6.

[981] 2 Cor. iv. 18.

[982] John xiv. 28.

[983] Heb. xii. 9.

[984] John xiii. 1.--Cp. Serm. i. Sec. 4 f., "It is the end of labours
... and th