Draw me after you; we will run
Draw me after you; we will run. The Bride asks to be drawn, because no one comes to the Word unless the Father draws him. She asks in the singular — draw me — and promises in the plural — we will run — because when one soul is drawn, many young women follow. Into the fragrance of your ointments: they run not first by sight, but by the fragrance of fame and preaching, until they see face to face.
Latin
Trahe me post te; curremus. Sponsa se trahi petit, quia nemo venit ad Verbum nisi Pater traxerit eum. Singularis petit: trahe me; pluralis promittit: curremus — quia ubi una anima trahitur, multae adulescentulae sequuntur. In odorem unguentorum tuorum: non in visu primo, sed in odore famae et praedicationis currunt, donec facie ad faciem videant.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber I (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber I. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber I §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber I §§1–20)
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