Surviving commentary ends; spiritual caveat
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. Melito skipped; never Cyril Matthew densify.
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. Melito skipped; never Cyril Matthew densify.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber IV (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber IV. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber IV §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber IV §§1–20)
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.