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Very similar, sometimes using the same words (funiculus triplex), is the comment of Bernard’s disciple Gilbert of HoilandGilbert v. Hoyland, who continued the Sermons on the Canticles;26 he identifies those coming from Lebanon with those clothed in white robes of the Revelation (ibid., CLXXXIV, 149).

Perhaps our method of demonstration, with its great number and variety of figurative texts, may seem too laborious to the reader, and he may ask if DanteDante really remembered all these complicated interrelations. But it is only to us that the figurative system seems laborious, complicated and sometimes absurd; for the Christians of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it was daily bread, as every sermon of that period shows. However, already in DanteDante’s time, and even more shortly afterwards, there appear signs of decay, at least in Italy; HumanismHumanismus introduces heterogeneous elements, and the liberty and finesse of the figurative method lose their creative powers. The ancient commentators on the Comedy give many figurative explanations; but most of them are comparatively crude or pedantic, without the sense of nuances and without DanteDante’s large knowledge of the tradition. Again I must insist upon the fact that within the limits of the tradition, within the limits of certain established customs of combination, there was much liberty of interpretation. These limits, however, seem to me to be transgressed, if one understands the cry veni sponsa as an invitation to Beatrice.