Commentary on the Song of Songs, Book IV · §11 · Origen of Alexandria

In the rock’s covert show me your face

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Arise and come, my near one, my fair one, my dove; in the covert of the rock beside the outer wall show me your face, and make your voice heard by me, for your voice is sweet and your face is fair. The Bridegroom shows a more secret place: the outer wall is a wall before the wall; there, the veil removed, are face and voice.

Latin

Surge et veni, proxima mea, speciosa mea, columba mea; in velamento petrae iuxta promurale ostende mihi faciem tuam, et auditam mihi fac vocem tuam, quoniam vox tua suavis et facies tua speciosa. Sponsus locum secretiorum ostendit: promurale murus ante murum; ibi velamine remoto facies et vox.

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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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Translated from Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber IV §§1 – 20)

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