He brought me to the wine cellar; order love
He brought me into the wine cellar; he ordered love in me. The wine cellar is the mysteries of the passion and of the eucharist. He ordered love: not chaotic, but ordered — first God, then neighbor. Stay me with flowers, heap me with apples, for I languish with love.
Latin
Introduxit me in cellam vinariam; ordinavit in me caritatem. Cella vinaria mysteria passionis et eucharistiae. Ordinavit caritatem: non tumultuariam, sed ordinatam — primum Deus, deinde proximus. Fulcite me floribus, stipate me malis, quia amore langueo.
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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