ndard (_R.Q.H._ lii. 41 f.) thinks that the date of the
translation was Saturday, October 30. This event probably marked the
end of the construction of the new monastery of Clairvaux, which began
before Malachy's first visit. See p. 71, n. 4.

[1022] Gal. ii. 9.

[1023] Ps. lxxxvi. 17 (vg.).

[1024] Matt. xii. 42.

[1025] 2 Macc. iii. 32 (vg.).

[1026] 1 Tim. ii. 8.

[1027] Rom. x. 15.

[1028] Cp. Luke vii. 38.--Perhaps a reference to St. Bernard's own
action just before this sermon was preached. See p. 129, n. 6.

[1029] Mal. ii. 7.

[1030] Ps. xxxvii. 30.

[1031] Ps. ci. 1.

[1032] Jas. i. 15.

[1033] Cp. 2 Cor. xi. 3; 1 Tim. ii. 14.--See J. H. Bernard on 2 Cor.
xi. 3 (_Expositor's Greek Testament_).

[1034] 1 Tim. ii. 14.

[1035] Rev. xii. 9; xx. 2.

[1036] 1 Cor. vi. 15, etc.

[1037] Eph. iv. 15, etc.

[1038] 1 Cor. xv. 54, combined with 2 Cor. v. 4.

[1039] Cp. _Cant._ xxvi. 11: "Thou art dead, O death, and pierced by
the hook thou hast imprudently swallowed, which saith in the words of
the prophet, 'O death, I will be thy death! O hell, I will be thy
bite.' Pierced, I say, by that hook, to the faithful who go through
the midst of thee thou offerest a broad and pleasant path-way into
life" (Morison's translation). A very old metaphor. It is thus
explained by Rufinus (A.D. 400) in his Commentary on the Apostles'
Creed (Sec. 16, Heurtley's translation): "The object of that mystery of
the Incarnation ... was that the divine virtue of the Son of God, as
though it were a hook concealed beneath the form and fashion of human
flesh, ... might lure on the prince of this world to a conflict, to
whom offering His flesh as a bait, His divinity underneath might
secure him, caught with a hook by the shedding of His immaculate
blood.... As, if a fish seizes a baited hook, it not only does not
take the bait off the hook, but is drawn out of the water to be itself
food for others, so he who had the power of death seized the body of
Jesus in death, not being aware of the hook of divinity enclosed
within it, but, having swallowed it, he was caught forthwith, and the
bars of hell being burst asunder, he was drawn forth as it were from
the abyss to become food for others."

[1040] Ps. lxxxix. 48 (vg.).

[1041] 1 John iii. 8.

[1042] 1 John ii. 13, 14.

[1043] Matt. xxv. 41.

[1044] Rev. xii. 12.

[1045] Jer. l. 23.

[1046] 1 Cor. xii. 7 (vg.).

[1047] Matt. x. 25.

[1048] Col. ii. 14.

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