[1145] Cp. _De Cons._ i. 6: "If you desire wholly to belong to all ... I praise your humility, but only if it is complete. But how can it be complete if you exclude yourself? And you are a man. Then, that your humanity also may be complete, let the bosom which receives all gather you also within itself ... wherefore, where all possess you let you yourself also be one of those who possess." [1146] Lucan, _Phars._ ii. 383. [1147] Cp. _De Cons._ iv. 12, "In ease not taking ease;" _Life_, § 43, "Quiet often, but by no means at any time taking ease." [1148] Ps. cxix. 23. [1149] Eccles. ii. 14 (inexact quotation). [1150] Cp. Luke iv. 22. [1151] _Tantillus._ The text seems to be corrupt. Read _tam laetus?_ [1152] Cp. _Life_, § 43: "Yea, what was there that was not edifying," etc. [1153] Ps. xx. 3 (vg.). [1154] 2 Cor. ii. 15. [1155] 1 Thess. i. 4 (vg.); 2 Thess. ii. 13. [1156] That is, Malachias, the Hebrew for _my angel_, with a Latin termination. For its origin see _Life_, § 12. [1157] At this point, with A, I omit a passage which is identical with the first half of Serm. i. § 5, and interrupts the argument. With A, also, in the following sentence I read _Laetemur et nos dilectissimi quod_ for _Laetemur quod_ of the printed text. See _R.I.A._ xxxv. 260-262. [1158] Judg. xiii. 20. [1159] Dan. vi. 13; Ezra iv. 1. [1160] Ps. ix. 2. [1161] _Curia._ [1162] _Cui sit cura nostri._ [1163] Cp. Lett. iv. § 2. [1164] _Informauit._ [1165] _Confirmauit._ [1166] Song of Three Children, 16. [1167] Ps. xliii. 4. [1168] Jer. ix. 1. [1169] Ps. xlv. 15. [1170] Luke i. 68. [1171] Matt. iv. 5. [1172] Ps. cxxvi. 1, 4 (vg.). [1173] Luke i. 47. [1174] 1 Cor. vi. 17. [1175] See _De Cons._ v. 2, quoted p. 127, n. 13, and the sermon on the Marriage of the Soul with the Word (_Cant._ lxxxiii. 6), in which St. Bernard, quoting 1 Cor. vi. 17, says, "Love ... joins the two in one spirit, makes them no longer two but one." Cp. also _Cant._ xxvi. 5: "He that is joined to God is one spirit, and is wholly changed into a certain divine feeling, and cannot think of or mind anything but God, and that which God thinks and minds, being full of God." For the last phrase see Ignatius, _Magn._ 14. [1176] Ps. xciii. 5. [1177] Ps. xxx. 4. [1178] Luke i. 75. [1179] Ps. cxlv. 7 (vg.). [1180] 1 Sam. xv. 17 (inexact quotation). [1181] Luke i. 49. [1182] Ps. cxlv. 5 (vg.). [1183] Num. xi. 25; 2 Kings ii. 9, 15. [1184] Luke i. 17.--See p. 151, n. 3. [1185] Ecclus. xlv. 5. [1186] The same phrase occurs in _Life_, § 75, similarly applied. [1187] Isa. lxii. 3. [1188] Ps. lii. 8 (vg.). [1189] Ps. xlv. 7 (vg.). [1190] Epiphany Collect. [1191] Cp. _Life_, § 47 (p. 88). [1192] Isa. xxvii. 6, combined with Hos. xiv. 5, and Ecclus. xxxix. 14. [1193] Ecclus. xlv. 1. [1194] Ecclus. xxiv. 2, 12 (vg.). The clauses containing the word assembly (_plenitudo_) are omitted in R.V. [1195] Ps. cxxxvi. 7. [1196] John i. 4. [1197] Ps. xlvi. 4. [1198] Ecclus. l. 6.