Equity has loved you — charity without iniquity
Equity has loved you. The young women say this as if making excuse, as though they do not yet perfectly love the breasts above wine. Equity is what loves Christ, because charity admits no iniquity. If you love me, keep my commandments: whoever loves, keeps; whoever keeps, has equity. As much iniquity as is in us, so far are we from the love of Christ.
Latin
Aequitas dilexit te. Adulescentulae velut satisfacientes dicunt hoc, quasi nondum perfecte diligant ubera super vinum. Aequitas est quae diligit Christum, quia caritas nihil iniquitatis admittit. Si diligitis me, mandata mea servate: qui diligit, custodit; qui custodit, aequitatem habet. Quantum iniquitatis in nobis est, tantum longe sumus a dilectione Christi.
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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