Excerpt from S. Bernardi, Abbatis Primi Claræ-Vallensis, Opera Omnia, Vol. 4: Sex Tomis in Quintuplici Volumnie Comprehensa, Post Historicum Denuo Recognita, Acuta Et in Meliorem Digesta Ordinem, Necnon Novis Præfationibus, Admonitionibus Notis Et Observationibus Indicibusque Copiosissimis Locupletata

Omnium nostri ordinis historiarum quasi lapis fundamenti, et scriptum maxime aulhenticum, est liber ille, quem Exordium ordinis Cisiei'ciensis vocamus. Hujus enim venerandam antiquitatem suspicimus non solum nos Cisterciensis familiae alumni, sed et classici quique auctores illum magno in prelio habenl: ubique enim antiquitatum ecclesiasticarum periti in ao reperiun't praeclara' testimonia, quibus Opiniones et historias stabiliant et confirment. Quantum ad me, quotiescunque hunc. Librum' evolvo, non possum satis pietatem, ' styli gravilatem, sententiarum pondus, et mirandoseventus, qui ibidem referuntur, non mirari: idque ausim dicere, h'unc in suo genere esse ex majox'ibus et pretiosioribus thesauris quo gaudet Ecclesia, talemque a fidelibus habendum.

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