[956] Mellifont had been founded a good while before the letter was written. Christian had returned to Clairvaux; and now after further instruction he was sent back, apparently as the bearer of the letter. The house had made good progress, but the buildings were still far from complete (§§ 2, 3). [957] Ps. cxix. 103. [958] Ps. xxx. 4. [959] 1 Cor. ii. 12. [960] Rom. viii. 16. [961] 1 Cor xv. 10. [962] 1 Cor. iii. 22. [963] Ps. lxxiv. 19 (vg.); Jer. xx. 13. [964] 2 Cor. v. 12. [965] 2 Cor. x. 17; 1 Cor. i. 31. [966] 1 Sam. i. 18, etc. [967] Ps. lxxx. 15. [968] Apparently the returned brothers mentioned below. [969] Cp. the passage quoted p. 170. [970] 1 Thess. iv. 1. [971] Josh. x. 6. [972] The monks of Clairvaux seem to have been reluctant to undertake work elsewhere, when St. Bernard desired them to do so (_V.P._ vii. 52 f.); and we have one instance of an abbot of a daughter house--Humbert of Igny--who resigned his office and returned to Clairvaux against St. Bernard's will (_Ep._ 141). [973] Printed text, _fratrum_. Read _fratres_. [974] Evidently Christian did not prove a satisfactory abbot. This may in part account for the return of the monks who went with him to Ireland. [975] Of this Robert, apparently the architect of Mellifont, we know nothing; for suggestions that he should be identified with one or other of the monks of Clairvaux who bore the same name are mere guesses. [976] 1 Pet. i. 14 (vg., inexact quotation). [977] Clearly this letter must have been penned a few days after Malachy's death. [978] Acts ix. 31, combined with John xiv. 26, etc. [979] Heb. xiii. 14. [980] Cp. Heb. iii. 6. [981] 2 Cor. iv. 18. [982] John xiv. 28. [983] Heb. xii. 9. [984] John xiii. 1.--Cp. Serm. i. § 4 f., "It is the end of labours ... and the entrance to perfect safety. Let us rejoice therefore ... with our father"; § 8, "Threefold is the rejoicing of the man, since he is delivered from all sin and from labour and from danger"; and words ascribed to St. Bernard in _V.P._ vii. 49, "Believe, my son, for now thou art about to pass from death to life, from temporal labour to eternal rest." [985] Communio for All Saints' Day (from Wisd. iii. 2, 3).--For the last four sentences of the section cp. Serm. i. § 5, where an identical passage immediately follows the first parallel quoted in n. 3. [986] Serm. i. § 1 (end) is somewhat similar in expression, and § 8 (end) in thought. There is a closer, but not very striking, parallel in Serm. ii. § 5 (end). [987] Luke ii. 52. [988] John xiii. 1 (inexact quotation). [989] Heb. i. 3. [990] 2 Cor. v. 7 (inexact quotation). [991] Cant. viii. 6. [992] Cp. Eph. iv. 2. [993] Ps. lxxiv, 19. [994] Cp. Serm. i. § 3 (beginning). [995] Ps. cxxvi. 3. [996] Cp. Serm. i. § 2, "Therefore we render thanks," etc. [997] Ps. cvi. 45. [998] Heb. ix. 17 (vg., inexact quotation). [999] Rom. iv. 12. [1000] 2 Pet. iii. 11. [1001] 1 Thess. iv. 1 (vg.). [1002] Cp. Prov. x. 1.