Note 31 — Chapter IX · PREACHING

For this and for its relations to symbolistic habit see Perdrizet. For one of the many earlier examples of minuteness see the Advent sermon of Pierre de Celles on Isaiah xvi. 1, “Send the lamb” (Emitte agnum tuum), PL 202: 687, which draws significance from every part of the lamb: the four feet, the belly, the back, etc. Alain’s chariot (above, VI. D. 1), remote and artificial to us, was a familiar allegory. Cf. his theological application of grammatica and rhetorica in the verses De incarnatione Christi, PL 210: 577, and Bourgain, 256.