Commentary on the Song of Songs, Book IV · §19 · Origen of Alexandria

Surviving commentary ends; spiritual caveat

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Let the reader beware: Rufinus’s surviving commentary ends at Song 2:15; Baehrens next prints the Homilies on Isaiah. Take the nuptial words spiritually of the Word and the soul, or of Christ and the church.

Latin

Caveat lector: commentarius Rufini superstites ad Cant. 2:15 desinit; Homiliae in Isaiam in Baehrens sequuntur. Nuptialia spiritaliter de Verbo/anima vel Christo/ecclesia.

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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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