[479] Isa. ii. 22; cf. Job xxvii. 3; Wisd. ii. 2.—The words might be rendered "a spirit (spiritus) in her nostrils." The meaning is not clear. In the biblical passages in which the phrase occurs it indicates mortality. On the other hand, by the previous sentence St. Bernard suggests that, in contrast to Malachy, the woman spoke under the influence of an evil spirit.
[480] Mark xiv. 61.
[481] 2 Kings ii. 23.
[482] Memoria sanctorum. Probably a reliquary. A reliquary preserved at Clogher in 1300 was known as the membra, which, according to one explanation, was the equivalent of memoriale scrinium, memorial shrine. See L.A.J. iv. 245. Cp. Oengus, p. 345 (s.v. Memrae); Lightfoot, Clement of Rome, vol. i. p. 91.
[483] Susanna, 56.
[484] Exod. xiv. 25.
[485] Deut. vii. 2 (vg.).
[486] Ps. ix. 6 (vg.).
[487] Ps. lxxiii. 19.
[488] See Additional Note B, p. 166.