Your name is ointment poured out; young women love you
Your name is ointment poured out. The name of Jesus has been poured out everywhere. As ointment, when the alabaster is broken, fills the house, so Christ’s name, when preached in the world, has filled all things. Therefore the young women have loved you — beginning souls and churches that have newly believed, drawn by the fragrance of his name.
Latin
Unguentum effusum nomen tuum. Nomen Iesu ubique diffusum est. Sicut unguentum fracto alabastro domum implet, sic Christi nomen orbe praedicato omnia replevit. Propterea adulescentulae dilexerunt te — animae incipientes et ecclesiae quae nuper crediderunt odore nominis eius attractae.
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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