The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) / A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages

by Henry Osborn Taylor

[497] Ante, Chapter XVI.

[498] As Augustine before him. Cf. Taylor, The Classical Heritage, etc., pp. 129-131.

[499] Ep. 11, ad Guigonem. Bernard adds that when Paul says that flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God, it is not to be understood that the substance of flesh will not be there, but that every carnal necessity will have ceased; the love of flesh will be absorbed in the love of the spirit, and our weak human affections transformed into divine energies.

[500] Migne, Pat. Lat. 182, col. 973-1000.

[501] Love, fear, joy, sorrow.

[502] Migne 183, col. 785-1198.

[503] Sermo xx. in Cantica.

[504] Sermo lxxix. in Cantica.

[505] Sermo lxxxiii. in Cantica. This is nearly the whole of this sermon. Bernard’s sermons were not long. See post, Chapter XXXVI. II., as to Bernard’s use of the symbolism of the kiss.

[506] Post, Chapter XIX.