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Book 4 opens — Arise, come; winter is past
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The Fourth Book. Arise, come, my near one, my fair one, my dove, for behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers are seen in the land, the time of pruning has come, the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land; the fig tree has put forth its shoots, the flowering vines have given fragrance .The order of the drama we described above; now let us attend to what God’s Word says to the soul, or Christ to the church.
Latin Liber Quartus. Surge, veni, proxima mea, speciosa mea, columba mea, quoniam ecce hiems transiit, pluvia abiit et discessit sibi; flores visi sunt in terra, tempus putationis advenit, vox turturis audita est in terra nostra; ficus produxit germina sua, vites florentes dederunt odorem. Ordo dramatis supra descriptus; nunc quid sermo Dei ad animam vel Christus ad ecclesiam dicat advertamus.
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About this text Origen on Song of Songs 2:10-15: the Bridegroom calls the soul out as winter passes, and the little foxes that spoil the vines stand for sins and heretics.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber IV. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording.
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