[718] _Rem._ This may have been a follower of Berengarius, who in his recantation in 1059 anathematized the heresy that the bread and wine "after consecration are merely a sacrament and not the true Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Mansi, xix. 900). [719] Compare St. Bernard's method with Abélard, _V.P._ iii. 13; and for his dealing with a brother who did not believe in transubstantiation, _ibid._ vii. 8, 9. [720] I follow the printed text: _de consensu confusus quidem exiit, sed non correptus_. But Mabillon, supported by A, has "he retired from the assembly confounded, but not brought to the right opinion" (_de conuentu ... non correctus_). K reads _de conuentu ... non correptus_. [721] It would seem from this that Malachy was acting as legate. The date is therefore after 1140. [722] Prov. xxviii. 21 (vg.). [723] John xi. 51. [724] Isa. xxviii. 19 (vg.). [725] In §§ 58-62 we have three stories in which Malachy appears as a peacemaker. [726] 1 Sam. xvii. 37, combined with 1 Chron. xxii. 16. [727] Gen. xi. 3 (vg.). [728] Judg. xvi. 24. [729] Mark v. 38. [730] This expression indicates that Malachy had a special relation to one monastery. It can hardly have been any other than Bangor. [731] Matt. xi. 17. [732] 1 Kings xxii. 22; 2 Chron. xviii. 21. [733] Josh. vi. 21; Judg. iv. 15, etc. [734] Heb. xi. 8. [735] Cp. Ps. x. 2. [736] 1 John iv. 6. [737] Cp. Mal. i. 6. [738] Cp. Ps. vii. 16. [739] Exod. viii. 19. [740] Hos. ii. 6. [741] Josh. vii. 15, etc. [742] In Serm. ii. § 2, where this story is again briefly told, the miracle is more directly ascribed to Malachy, and the stream is said to have swelled suddenly. [743] Cp. Luke iv. 14, etc. [744] Job v. 13, combined with 1 Cor. iii. 19. [745] Ps. lxxv. 10. [746] 1 Sam. ii. 10. [747] Probably Turlough O'Conor, who is said by the annalists to have imprisoned illegally several persons of high position, viz. (1) his own son Rory O'Conor, together with Donnell O'Flaherty and Cathal O'Conor, in 1143, (2) Murrough Ua Maelsechlainn, king of Meath, in 1143, and (3) Teague O'Brien, in 1148. Release was obtained, in the first instance, in 1144 by the clergy of Ireland and the "coarb of Patrick," who fasted at Rathbrennan. The coarb may have been Malachy. In the second instance, it was secured through the influence of certain "sureties"; and in the third, "at the intercession of the bishops of Ireland with the coarb of Patrick, Mael Maedoc Ua Morgair" (_A.F.M._, _A.T._). The Annals, however, know nothing of the blinding of O'Conor. The incident in the text is mentioned in Serm. ii. § 2. [748] Gal iii. 19. [749] Josh. vii. 15, etc. [750] Acts xxiii. 14. [751] An example of the well-known Irish custom of "fasting on" a person with a view to his discomfiture (cp. p. 106, n. 9). [752] Ps. lxxi. 4 (inexact quotation). [753] Exod. viii. 19. [754] Rev. v. 8. [755] Isa. xxi. 15 (vg.). [756] Ps. cxxxix. 7. [757] Acts xiii. 11. [758] Acts xxvi. 14. [759] Ps. cxx. 4.