Please help a frustrated fellow Logos user ...

Bernard of Clairvaux begins a sermon with a quotation:

“The voice of gladness hath resounded in our land, the voice of exultation and salvation in the tents of sinners. A good word has been heard, a consoling word, a speech full of joyfulness, a rumour worthy of all acceptance. Sing praise, O ye mountains, and all ye trees of the woods. Clap your hands before the face of the Lord, because He cometh. Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth! Be amazed, and let every creature give praise; but thou beyond others, O man I”

J. C. Hedley, “Introduction,” in Sermons of St. Bernard on Advent & Christmas: Including the Famous Treatise on the Incarnation Called “Missus Est” (London; Manchester; Glasgow; New York; Cincinnati; Chicago: R. & T. Washbourne; Benziger Bros., 1909), 75.

Can anyone identify the source? Note the last character of the quote is a typo ... perhaps for a footnote or a !

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Rosie Perera

http://archive.org/stream/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft_djvu.txt

Oops! I misunderstood your question. Thought you were looking for the original source of Bernard's sermon.

Rosie Perera

I think it's a combination of a smattering of quotations from several places:

"tents of sinners" (Ps 83:11)

"and all ye trees of the woods. Clap your hands" (Isa 55:2)

"Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth!" (Isa 1:2)

"let every creature...praise" (Ps 145:21)

"Be amazed at this, O heavens" (Jer 2:12, NET)

and so on

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553579#Comment_553579

That's a distinct possibility ... but I suspect that they were already combined into some sort of hymn or liturgical text before Bernard made use of them

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553581#Comment_553581

Couldn't find any significant section of it in Google Books, but then again this is an English translation of Bernard's original. The way to search it would be to find his original text (in Greek?) and search Google Books for that. Still, there's the distinct possibility that it's a quotation from something that has never yet been digitized.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553583#Comment_553583

(in Greek?)

Latin in this case

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553586#Comment_553586

Here you go, from p. 43 of http://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Clairvaux-Sermons-Christmas-Cistercian/dp/0879074515

Could not find Ecclesiastica Officia. Gebräuchebuch der Zisterzienser aus dem 12. Jahrhundert online to look it up, and can't read German anyway, but if you can and want to order it, you can find it here: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?paratrk=&isbn=9783934551756

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553588#Comment_553588

Thank you ... thank you ... this cheers me immensely.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553593#Comment_553593

If only Logos carried works from Cistercian Publications!

Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553597#Comment_553597

Peace, Dear Ladies ............ Here perhaps is another source -- from Toronto, of all places, eh???!!!

http://archive.org/stream/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft_djvu.txt

Is this copyrighted? Wouldn't it make a "loverly" PB? *smile*

Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553880#Comment_553880

Hi again! I can't even begin to imagine why I didn't check my own Logos Library first of all! *smile*

There, Martha, was your quote! In Logos, eh???

[[Page 75 >> logosres:bernardxmas;ref=Page.p_75]]

Edit: Trying again to have a logosres that works ...

[[Page 75 >> logosres:bernardxmas;ref=Page.p_75;off=2;ctx=I$0A~on_the_joy_his_birth_should_inspire$0A$E2$80$9CT]]

Final Edit: I guess I will have to learn how to do a proper logosres, eh?

The quote is on page 75 of my book in my Logos Library ...

Sermons of St. Bernard

Advent & Christmas

including the famous treatise on the incarnation called "missus est"

Compiled and translated at St. Mary’s Convent, York, from the Edition

(1508), in black-letter, of St. Bernard’s Sermons and Letters

[chiefly for convents]

with introduction

by the

Right Rev. J. C. Hedley, O.S.B.

bishop of newport

R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd.

1, 2 & 4 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

MANCHESTER: 74 Bridge St. GLASGOW: 248 Buchanan St.

benziger bros.: new york, cincinnati, chicago

1909

Nihil Obstat

henricus g. s. bowden,

Censor Deputatus

Imprimatur

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553880#Comment_553880

Peace, Dear Ladies ............ Here perhaps is another source -- from Toronto, of all places, eh???!!!

http://archive.org/stream/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft_djvu.txt

Is this copyrighted? Wouldn't it make a "loverly" PB? *smile*

Peace, Milford. It's the link I posted above in my first reply.

Sure would make a lovely PB. Unfortunately I don't have time. The text would take quite a lot of work to clean up into a PB.

It is not copyrighted. You can find that out from the general info page about that text:

https://archive.org/details/sermonsofstberna00bernuoft

EDIT: Just saw your follow-up post. Good thing there is no need to make this into a PB!

Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553887#Comment_553887

Blessings, Rosie! I think it's best that "I give it up" for the day! Mind is getting a wee bit fuzzy! Thanks for bringing me back to this planet! *smile*

Nice to find it in my Logos Library, though! !!!

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553885#Comment_553885

In Logos, eh???

[[Page 75 >> logosres:bernardxmas;ref=Page.p_75]]

Edit: Trying again to have a logosres that works ...

[[Page 75 >> logosres:bernardxmas;ref=Page.p_75;off=2;ctx=I$0A~on_the_joy_his_birth_should_inspire$0A$E2$80$9CT]]

Final Edit: I guess I will have to learn how to do a proper logosres, eh?

Milford,

thanks for this find!

The syntax you used (double sqare brackets) will work in PBs and the wiki/topics sites, but the forum software should react to the most simple logosres:bernardxmas;ref=Page.p_75 - at least it did in the past and that's how it should work (it works if inserted into the browser URL field and this is what is generated if one uses the logos resource menu option "copy as URL for the web")

Mick

EDIT: seems the forum software is broken in recognizing it (I know for sure it used to work!). I try a workaround and manually insert logosres:bernardxmas;ref=Page.p_75 into a chain link. EDIT 2: this does it.

Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/553971#Comment_553971

Thanks, Mick! Appreciated indeed!

Froehliche Weihnachten !!! *smile*