Solomon / Ecclesiastes / Song — shifting titles
Note also how in the three books Solomon writes himself under different names. In Proverbs: Solomon son of David who reigned in Israel. In Ecclesiastes: the words of Ecclesiastes son of David king of Israel in Jerusalem — the name Solomon is changed to Ecclesiastes and the place of the kingdom is marked. In the Song of Songs he sets neither the nation’s name nor place nor that he is king, but simply the Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s, because here the matter is no longer earthly reign but the peace of Bridegroom and Bride.
Latin
Notandum quoque quomodo in tribus libris Salomon se ipsum diversis nominibus scribat. In Proverbiis: Salomon filius David qui regnavit in Israel. In Ecclesiasten: verba Ecclesiastae filii David regis Israel in Hierusalem — nomen Salomonis in Ecclesiasten mutatur et locus regni designatur. In Cantico Canticorum neque gentis nomen neque locum neque quod rex sit ponit, sed simpliciter Canticum Canticorum quod est Salomoni, quia hic iam non de regno terreno sed de pace sponsi et sponsae agitur.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Prologus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of the Commentary Prologus. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Prologus §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Prologus §§1–20)
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