Footnotes

1. Clearly this letter must have been penned a few days after Malachy’s death. ↩

2. Acts ix. 31, combined with John xiv. 26, etc. ↩

3. Heb. xiii. 14. ↩

4. Cp. Heb. iii. 6. ↩

5. 2 Cor. iv. 18. ↩

6. John xiv. 28. ↩

7. Heb. xii. 9. ↩

8. 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.” ↩

9. 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. ↩

10. 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). ↩

11. Luke ii. 52. ↩

12. John xiii. 1 (inexact quotation). ↩

13. Heb. i. 3. ↩

14. 2 Cor. v. 7 (inexact quotation). ↩

15. Cant. viii. 6. ↩

16. Cp. Eph. iv. 2. ↩

17. Ps. lxxiv, 19. ↩

18. Cp. Serm. i. § 3 (beginning). ↩

19. Ps. cxxvi. 3. ↩

20. Cp. Serm. i. § 2, “Therefore we render thanks,” etc. ↩

21. Ps. cvi. 45. ↩

22. Heb. ix. 17 (vg., inexact quotation). ↩

23. Rom. iv. 12. ↩

24. 2 Pet. iii. 11. ↩

25. 1 Thess. iv. 1 (vg.). ↩

26. Cp. Prov. x. 1. ↩

27. Cant. i. 3, 4.—Cp. Serm. i. § 8 (end). ↩

28. Col. iv. 3. ↩