Order of love’s ascent in Book II
The order of love in Book II: from confession of weakness (I am black) to petition for knowledge (tell me), from self-knowledge to likeness to the divine cavalry, from memory of the passion (myrrh) to praise of the Bridegroom’s beauty. The steps of the advancing soul are marked here.
Latin
Ordo amoris in Libro II: a confessione infirmitatis (nigra sum) ad petitionem scientiae (indica mihi), a cognitione sui ad assimilationem equitatui divino, a memoria passionis (myrrha) ad laudem pulchritudinis sponsi. Gradus animae proficientis hic designantur.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber II (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber II. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber II §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber II §§1–20)
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