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Rh thence alo, by an eay tranition, to the toil we endure on earth, and the eternal contemplation of God's glory in Heaven as here. So again, in a fine but rugged proe in the Nuremberg Mial for St. Jerome's Day:

"The parallel ymbol of Martha and Mary is, however, in this ene far more common, and is even found in epitaphs, as in that of Gundreda de Warren, daughter of William the Conqueror:

A Martha to the houeles poor, a Mary in her love;

And though her Martha's part be gone, her Mary's lives above.

"Bernard, in the paage we are conidering, has a double propriety in the changes of which he peaks. Irael, according to St. Augutine's rendering, means, He that beholds God; Rachel, according to the unwarrantable mediæval explanation, That beholds the Beginning, i. e, . Thus, the change poken of is from earth to the Beatific Viion; and has a reference alo to the New Name and White Stone of the Apocalype.

"The econd allegory of Leah and Rachel expounds them of the Synagogue and the Church; the third makes them to repreent earthly affliction patiently endured "—Mediæval Hymns. 2d Edition.