is what he promised to minister at his coming; and meantime we have received of his fulness, not indeed glory for glory, but grace for grace, as it is written ‘The Lord will give grace and worship’ (Psalm lxxxiii. 12). Despise not, then, the gifts preceding, if thou yearnest for those that follow. _In Vigilia Nativitatis Domini_, V. 3; PL 183: 107. Refrain reinforces other incremental iteration in an ardent sermon on the _Magnificat_.[50] The very insistence exhibits strikingly the value of cumulative progress for charging exposition with emotion. 1. _Magnificat anima mea Dominum._ Magnificat voce, magnificat opere, magnificat affectu. Magnificat laudando, amando, prædicando. Magnificat, laudandi, amandi et magnificandi formam simul et materiam dando. _Magnificat anima mea Dominum_: quia magnifice a magnifico Domino magnifica est. In primis ad imaginem et similitudinem Dei anima mea mirabiliter a Domino creata est; sed postea in Adam miserabiliter deformata, nunc mirabilius, gloriosius et magnificentius a Domino renovata est. _Magnificat anima mea Dominum._ Magnificat omnis creatura Dominum, sed amplius super omnem creaturam anima mea Dominum magnificat. In omni enim creatura nihil tam magnifice fecit Dominus sicut animam meam. Sed Dominus est: sicut voluit, sic factum est. _Magnificat anima mea Dominum._ Dominum magnifica, non temetipsum. Qui semetipsum magnificavit, quantum in ipso fuit, Deum exhonoravit: et ideo non se exaltavit, sed præcipitavit. Tuum est te ipsum humiliare, Domini exaltare. 2. _Et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo._ Vide qualis ordo. Prius citharam, postea psalterium tetigit: prius animam, postea spiritum posuit: non enim prius quod spirituale, sed quod animale; deinde quod spirituale. _Et exsultavit spiritus meus_, extra omnem creaturam, extra seipsum etiam præ immensitate gaudii saltavit. In quo? Non in me; sed _in Deo_ creatore meo, cognitione et amore ejus fervendo: et hoc non per me, sed mediante et salvante me _Salutari meo_ Jesu filio meo, singulariter meo. Meus est Deus, meus Salutaris, meus est filius. Omnium quidem et mei conditor est, sed mei solius filius est: et me mediante omnium salus est. FOOTNOTES: [1] Bourgain, 31. The sermon is in PL 158. [2] “The lord Abbot preached in chapter on the Epiphany a magnificent sermon. I have rendered it rapidly, as well as I could from memory, to send to you.” Odo, quoted by Bourgain, 16. “Les sermons d’Hildebert n’ont donc pas été prononcés tels qu’ils sont écrits.” Bourgain, 41. Cf. LM 120-121 on the manuscript sermons of St. Thomas Aquinas. For the text of St. Bernard’s, see Mabillon’s introduction to PL 183. [3] See Chapter II above.