Sermon on St. John the Baptist
Bernard's sermon on the feast of St. John the Baptist, on burning and shining.
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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Verse 16: And God Made Two Great Lights
— Quoted on burning and shining: "merely to shine is vain, merely to burn is little, to burn and to shine is perfect"
"as St. Bernard rightly observes and explains, Sermon on St. John the Baptist"