Song of Songs 8 #catechesis/bible/song-of-songs
[!abstract] The love of the Church to Christ: his love to her.
Book: Song of Songs · ← Song of Songs 7
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GR τίς δῴη σε ἀδελφιδόν μου θηλάζοντα μαστοὺς μητρός μου εὑροῦσά σε ἔξω φιλήσω σε καί γε οὐκ ἐξουδενώσουσίν μοι
LA Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meæ, ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, et jam me nemo despiciat?
EN Who shall give you to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find you without, and kiss you, and now no man may despise me?
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GR παραλήμψομαί σε εἰσάξω σε εἰς οἶκον μητρός μου καὶ εἰς ταμίειον τῆς συλλαβούσης με ποτιῶ σε ἀπὸ οἴνου τοῦ μυρεψικοῦ ἀπὸ νάματος ῥοῶν μου
LA Apprehendam te, et ducam in domum matris meæ: ibi me docebis, et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito, et mustum malorum granatorum meorum.
EN I will take hold of you, and bring you into my mother’s house: there you shall teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.
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GR εὐώνυμος αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ τὴν κεφαλήν μου καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτοῦ περιλήμψεταί με
LA Læva ejus sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me.
EN His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
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GR ὥρκισα ὑμᾶς θυγατέρες Ιερουσαλημ ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἰσχύσεσιν τοῦ ἀγροῦ τί ἐγείρητε καὶ τί ἐξεγείρητε τὴν ἀγάπην ἕως ἂν θελήσῃ
LA Sponsus. Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.
EN I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
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GR τίς αὕτη ἡ ἀναβαίνουσα λελευκανθισμένη ἐπιστηριζομένη ἐπὶ τὸν ἀδελφιδὸν αὐτῆς ὑπὸ μῆλον ἐξήγειρά σε ἐκεῖ ὠδίνησέν σε ἡ μήτηρ σου ἐκεῖ ὠδίνησέν σε ἡ τεκοῦσά σου
LA Chorus. Quæ est ista quæ ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens, innixa super dilectum suum? Sponsus. Sub arbore malo suscitavi te; ibi corrupta est mater tua, ibi violata est genitrix tua.
EN Who is this that comes up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised you up: there your mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore you.
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GR θές με ὡς σφραγῖδα ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν σου ὡς σφραγῖδα ἐπὶ τὸν βραχίονά σου ὅτι κραταιὰ ὡς θάνατος ἀγάπη σκληρὸς ὡς ᾅδης ζῆλος περίπτερα αὐτῆς περίπτερα πυρός φλόγες αὐτῆς
LA Sponsa. Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum, ut signaculum super brachium tuum, quia fortis est ut mors dilectio, dura sicut infernus æmulatio: lampades ejus lampades ignis atque flammarum.
EN Put me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.
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GR ὕδωρ πολὺ οὐ δυνήσεται σβέσαι τὴν ἀγάπην καὶ ποταμοὶ οὐ συγκλύσουσιν αὐτήν ἐὰν δῷ ἀνὴρ τὸν πάντα βίον αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ ἐξουδενώσει ἐξουδενώσουσιν αὐτόν
LA Aquæ multæ non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, nec flumina obruent illam. Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suæ pro dilectione, quasi nihil despiciet eam.
EN Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.
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GR ἀδελφὴ ἡμῖν μικρὰ καὶ μαστοὺς οὐκ ἔχει τί ποιήσωμεν τῇ ἀδελφῇ ἡμῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ᾗ ἐὰν λαληθῇ ἐν αὐτῇ
LA Chorus Fratrum. Soror nostra parva, et ubera non habet; quid faciemus sorori nostræ in die quando alloquenda est?
EN Our sister is little, and has no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?
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[!note]- Our sister is little, etc…
Mystically signifies the Jews, who are to be spoken to: that is, converted towards the end of the world: and then shall become a wall, that is, a part of the building, the church of Christ. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR εἰ τεῖχός ἐστιν οἰκοδομήσωμεν ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ἐπάλξεις ἀργυρᾶς καὶ εἰ θύρα ἐστίν διαγράψωμεν ἐπ’ αὐτὴν σανίδα κεδρίνην
LA Si murus est, ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.
EN If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.
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GR ἐγὼ τεῖχος καὶ μαστοί μου ὡς πύργοι ἐγὼ ἤμην ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ ὡς εὑρίσκουσα εἰρήνην
LA Sponsa. Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens.
EN I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I have become in his presence as one finding peace.
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GR ἀμπελὼν ἐγενήθη τῷ Σαλωμων ἐν Βεελαμων ἔδωκεν τὸν ἀμπελῶνα αὐτοῦ τοῖς τηροῦσιν ἀνὴρ οἴσει ἐν καρπῷ αὐτοῦ χιλίους ἀργυρίου
LA Chorus Fratrum. Vinea fuit pacifico in ea quæ habet populos: tradidit eam custodibus; vir affert pro fructu ejus mille argenteos.
EN The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which has people: he let out the same to keepers, every man brings for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
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GR ἀμπελών μου ἐμὸς ἐνώπιόν μου οἱ χίλιοι σοί Σαλωμων καὶ οἱ διακόσιοι τοῖς τηροῦσι τὸν καρπὸν αὐτοῦ
LA Sponsa. Vinea mea coram me est. Mille tui pacifici, et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus ejus.
EN My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for you, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
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GR ὁ καθήμενος ἐν κήποις ἑταῖροι προσέχοντες τῇ φωνῇ σου ἀκούτισόν με
LA Sponsus. Quæ habitas in hortis, amici auscultant; fac me audire vocem tuam.
EN You that dwell in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear your voice.
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GR φύγε ἀδελφιδέ μου καὶ ὁμοιώθητι τῇ δορκάδι ἢ τῷ νεβρῷ τῶν ἐλάφων ἐπὶ ὄρη ἀρωμάτων
LA Sponsa. Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.
EN Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.
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[!note]- His left hand, etc…
Words of the church to Christ. His left hand, signifying the Old Testament, and his right hand, the New. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
[!note]- Who is this, etc…
The angels with admiration behold the Gentiles converted to the faith: coming up from the desert, that is, coming from heathenism and false worship: flowing with delights, that is, abounding with good works which are pleasing to God: leaning on her beloved, on the promise of Christ to his Church, that the gates of hell should not prevail against it; and supported by his grace conferred by the sacraments. Under the apple tree I raised thee up; that is, that Christ redeemed the Gentiles at the foot of the cross, where the synagogue of the Jews (the mother church) was corrupted by their denying him, and crucifying him. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
