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presence here is due to the mischievous activity of a scribe, and that it is 

 not part of the sermon. ^ 



Setting it aside, only one parallel with Up. 374 remains : 



Serm. ii. 

 § 5. Laetcmur, inquam, et exulte- 



viits, quia caelestis ilia curia ex nobis 

 habet cui sit cura nostri, qui suis nos 

 protegat meritis, quos informaiiit ex- 

 cmplis, miraculis confirmauit. 



Ep. 374. 

 § "2. Dehinc etiam utilitatis pro- 

 pviae consideratio exsultandum nobis 

 suggerit et lactandum, quod tarn potens 

 SUDS patronus ad caelestem curiam, tam 

 fidelis praecesserit aduocatus ; cuius et 

 feruentissima charitas obliuisci ne- 

 queat filioruni, et probata sanctitas 

 obtineat gratiam apud Deum. 



The several books of which St. Bernard's treatise Dc Coii&ideratione is 

 composed were written at intervals. The first was penned in 1149, the 

 second in 1150, and the third early in 1152.- I have observed the following 

 parallels to our sermon in that work : — 



Serin, ii. 

 § 8. Non enim ita omnibus intende- 

 bat ut se solum exponeret, solum curae 

 exciperct gencrali. Ernt ct sui sollici- 

 tus, seipsum custodiebat. Ila denique 

 totus suus et totus omnium eral, ut nee 

 charitas a cii.^todia sui nee proprietas 

 ab utilitato communi eum imi)edire 

 uel rctnrdare in nliquo nideretur. 



§ 4. Sine otio tenipiis quod otio de- 

 derat tran.<!igebat. Quomodo oliosus 

 quando exercebatur in iustificationibus 

 Domini ? 



Much more striking than any of these, I venture to tliink, are the follow- 

 ing parallels between the second Sermon and the Life of Alalachy : — 



Dc Consid. 

 i. 0. Si item tctus uis esse omnium, 

 instar illius qui omnibus omnia factus 

 est, laudo humilitatcm, sed si plena 

 sit. Quomodo autem plena , te excluso ? 

 Et tu homo es. Ergo ut Integra sit et 

 plena liumanitas.colligat et te intra se 

 sinus qui omncs recipit . . . Quam ob 

 rem cum omnes tc habeant eslo etiam 

 tu e\ babentibus unus. 



iv. 12. In o//o non olios i. 



Senn. ii. 

 § 2. Ipse est qui pacis quam fecerat 

 uiolatores ipiritui erroris tradifos/nis- 

 iratus est in malo quod faccre cogita- 



Vita S. Malachiac. 

 § 58. Interim uero impii cum quibus 

 fecerant pacem insequi non desistebant 

 ad perdendum eos ; et ecce spiritus 



' .\ft«r thea« para^^rapha were in type I observed that the suspected passage is omitted 

 in the Trinity College MS., F. 4. 6, which ontsins s fragment of this sermon, imbedded 

 in the text of the Vita. In that MS. for LatUmur rpuxl we find tlie reading LiuUmnr el 

 tioi diUdiisimi quod, which 1 have no doubt is correct. 



' Migne. P. L.. clxxxii, 723. 



