Liber III opens — dove-eyes needed to see the Word
The Third Book. The greatness in the Word cannot first be seen or known unless one first receives dove-eyes — that is, spiritual understanding. The couch she says she shares with the Bridegroom seems to me to indicate this body of the soul, in which, while still placed there, she has been counted worthy to be taken into the Word’s companionship.
Latin
Liber Tertius. Prius perspici nec agnosci potest quanta sit in Verbo magnificentia, nisi prius oculos quis columbae, id est intelligentiam spiritalem, accipiat. Commune sibi cubile quod dicit esse cum sponso, corpus hoc mihi videtur indicari animae, in quo adhuc posita digna habita sit adscisci ad consortium Verbi Dei.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber III (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber III. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber III §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber III §§1–20)
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