[585] Ps. xxxiv. 15; 1 Pet. iii. 12. [586] St. Bernard's secretary, Geoffrey, recalls this sentence (_V.P._ iii. 1). He mentions the saint's many miracles and then proceeds, "But, as he himself says, in commendation of St. Malachy, the first and greatest miracle that he displayed was himself." About half of the present section is embodied by Gerlatus in his description of the character of Godscalcus (_M.G.H._, Scr. xvii. 700). [587] Eph. iii. 16. [588] Jas. iii. 2. [589] Matt. xii. 36. [590] Cp. Serm. ii. § 4. [591] Cp. Consecratio in Ordering of Deacons (Gregorian Sacramentary). [592] Cp. Serm. ii. § 4. [593] This statement must be accepted with some reserve. Malachy must have had personal property while he was coarb of Patrick. And accordingly Serm. i. § 6, connects his voluntary poverty with his episcopate in Down, and above (§ 21) his departure from Armagh is represented as a return to poverty. The context shows that St. Bernard is here thinking of the period when he was legate. [594] Gen. xxxii. 5, etc. [595] _I.e._ dioceses. [596] Cp. Rom. i. 9. [597] 1 Cor. ix. 14. [598] Luke x. 7. [599] 1 Cor. ix. 18; cp. Serm. ii. § 1. [600] Phil. iv. 3 combined with Eph. iv 12; cp. Acts xx. 34. [601] Matt. xviii. 4, combined with Ecclus. iii. 20. [602] Luke xii. 13. [603] 1 Pet. v. 3 (vg.). [604] 1 Cor. ix. 19. [605] Cp. _De Dil._ 17: "Paul did not preach the Gospel that he might eat, but ate that he might preach the Gospel; for he loved not food but the Gospel." The reference is of course to 1 Cor. ix. [606] 1 Tim. vi. 5. [607] _Opus et onus._ [608] Amos i. 13. [609] Cp. 2 Cor. vi. 11. [610] Matt. vi. 26. [611] Matt. vi. 25, 31. [612] 2 Cor. vi. 10. [613] Cp. Matt. vi. 34. [614] Secret of Mass for Nativity of St. John Baptist, etc. [615] Exod. xxxii. 6, etc. [616] Cp. Gen. xi. 4. [617] Matt. viii. 20; Luke ix. 58. [618] 2 Tim. iv. 5. [619] Jer. vi. 23, etc. [620] 2 Thess. iii. 8, 12. [621] Ps. lxxviii. 25. [622] Ps. cvii. 9. [623] _Plebes._ [624] 2 Cor. xii. 12 (vg.). [625] Cp. 1 Cor. xv. 10. [626] Ps. lxxvii. 14.--The following narratives of Malachy's miracles are not in chronological order. They are arranged according to their character. Thus the first four (§§ 45, 46) are instances of his power over demons. [627] Coleraine is said to have been founded by St. Patrick; and it was certainly a religious establishment at least as early as the sixth century (Adamnan, i. 50). One of its erenachs died in 1122 (_A.F.M._). The word "city" implies that the community was still in existence. [628] Compare the story of St. Gall listening to the conversation of the demon of the mountain and the demon of the waters, told in Stokes's _Celtic Church in Ireland_, p. 145, from the Life of St. Gall in _M.G.H._, Scr. i. 7. [629] The first of three miracles of healing the insane.