LAwr,oK — Nolcs on .S7. Bernard's Life of St. Mulachi/. 261 



"Congratulemui'itaque, fi'atves,coiigratuleiiuir, ut diyinmi est, patri nostro ; 

 (juia et piuni est defunctuin plangeie Malachiaiii, et piuni magis Malaeliiae 

 congaiulere uiuenti. Numqiiid iion uiuit '. Et lieate. Niiniium uisus est 

 ocnlis insipientium mori, ille auteiii in pace. Denique iam conciuis sanctonini 

 et domesticus Dei, psaliit pariter et agit gratias dicens, transiuimus per igneni 

 et aquam, et induxisti iios in refrigerium. Transiuit plane uiiiliter et feliciter 

 pertransiuit. Verus Hebraeus pascha celebrauit in spiiitu, et nobis transiens 

 loquebatur, Desiderio desideraui hoc pascha manducare apud uos. Transiuit 

 per igneui et aquam, quein nee tristia frangere, nee detinere niollia 

 potiierunt." 



Now, a reference to p. 257, above, will sliow tliat the first few lines of 

 this extract are nearly identical with a sentence or two of the Epistle. But 

 it will also show that the whole extract is absolutely identical with the 

 portion of Serm. I, § 5, there quoted. It is obviously unlikely that so long 

 a passage should be repeated verbatim in a second sermon delivered at least a 

 year after the first. There is, therefore, grave reason to suspect that it is an 

 interpolation in one or other of our two sermons. But it ^vill be seen that in 

 Serm. i it rises naturally from the preceding section ; and it will be observed 

 that the train of thought which leads up to it there is similar to that wliich 

 leads up to its parallel in the Epistle. It may be added, that in Serm. I it 

 is followed by a passage whicli explains and develops the application to 

 Malacliy of the words Transiuit per icjnem et aquerm. In other words, it is in 

 complete harmony with its context. 



But that it is alien to its context in Serm. ii is easily proved. In | 5 

 of that discourse, St. Bernard is enlarging on the significance of the name 

 MataeMas, which is the Hebrew for My Anyel, with a Latin termination. 

 Omitting the passage under consideration, the section runs thus : — 



'■ Pro huiusmodi ergo dilectus a Deo et hominibus non immerito hodie 

 Malachias in consortium angelorum recipitur, re adeptus quod nomine dice- 

 batur. Et quidem ante angelus erat non minus puritate quam nomine ; sed 

 nunc felicius gloriosi in eo interpretatio nominis adimpletur, quando pari cum 

 angelis gloria et felicitate laetatur. Laetemur, quod angelus noster ascendit 

 ad ciues suos, pro filiis captiuitatis legatione fungens, corda nobis concilians 

 beatoruui, nota illis intimans miserorum. Laetemur, iuquam, et exultemus, 

 quia caelestis ilia curia ex nobis habet, cui sit cura nostri, qui suis nos protegat 

 meritis, quos infoiniauit exem^ilis, miraculis confirmauit." 



We read this without consciousness that there is anything lacking. But 

 if with the printed text we insert " Congratulemur itaque," &c., after " felicitate 

 laetatur,'' we perceive that it interrupts the arj^ument, and has no real nexus 

 witli what precedes and follows. We may conclude with certainty tliat its 



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