[226] Isa. xl. 4.
[227] Ps. xix. 5.
[228] Cp. Isa. x. 17.
[229] Ps. lxxiv. 6 (vg.).
[230] Cp. Ignatius, Trall. 11.
[231] Ps. lxxviii. 49 (vg.: inexact quotation).
[232] Ezek. v. 11, etc.
[233] Cp. Rev. vi. 13.
[234] Ps. i. 4 (vg.).
[235] Malachy acted in accordance with the aims of Gilbert, bishop of Limerick, who about the year 1108, wrote these words (De Usu Ecclesiastico, in Ussher, 500): "I have endeavoured to describe the canonical custom in saying the hours and performing the office of the whole ecclesiastical order ... to the end that the various and schismatical orders, with which almost the whole of Ireland has been deluded, may give place to the one Catholic and Roman office."