Commentary on the Song of Songs, Book IV · §13 · Origen of Alexandria

Not unknown — but a gap without face and voice

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Show me your face: the Bridegroom is not wholly ignorant of face and voice, but by an interval he had gone without them. He desires the Bride’s words and appearance in a more secret place, where reverence lets the veil fall back.

Latin

Ostende faciem: sponsus faciem et vocem non penitus ignarus, sed intervallo caruerat. Desiderat sponsae verba et aspectum in loco secretiore, ubi reverentia velamen remittit.

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