Show me your face; beside the outer wall
Show me your face; let your voice sound in my ears, for your voice is sweet and your face is fair. The Bridegroom, who had come leaping on the mountains and looking through the windows, says a second time: Arise, come; now he adds the place: in the covert of the rock beside the outer wall. The outer wall is a wall before the wall — a more secret place where, the veil removed, the face may be shown and the voice heard.
Latin
Ostende mihi faciem tuam; sonet vox tua in auribus meis, quoniam vox tua suavis et facies tua speciosa. Sponsus, qui saliens super montes venerat et per fenestras prospiciebat, secundo dicit: Surge, veni; nunc addit locum: in velamento petrae iuxta promurale. Promurale murus ante murum est; locus secretior, ubi velamine remoto facies ostendatur et vox audiatur.
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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