Note 92 — INTRODUCTION. (continued 2)

1700. Bishop Patrick, however, would not admit any literal meaning, but found, almost in every word, some delightful mystery. Even the words, “Thy navel is like a round goblet which wanteth not liquor; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies,” (chap. vii. 2,) at which so much umbrage has been taken, this pious prelate says, may mean “the two Sacraments which the Church administers to her children; the Font in Baptism being represented by the former, and the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper by the other part of the figure.”92