Prologus CLOSEOUT — on to Osculetur me
With the prologue thus set out, let us now look also at what follows in the body of the little book itself. It begins: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. We must remember what we warned in the preface: this little book, having the appearance of an epithalamium, is written in the manner of a drama. According to that form a historical exposition will be fitted by us; but the spiritual understanding will, the Lord granting, be opened in the Books that follow.
Latin
His ita de prologo digestis, videamus iam etiam quae sequuntur in ipso corpore libelli. Incipit: Osculetur me ab osculis oris sui. Meminisse oportet quod in praefatione praemonuimus, quia libellus hic epithalamii habens speciem dramatis in modum conscribitur. Secundum hanc speciem historica a nobis aptabitur expositio; spiritalis vero intelligentia in sequentibus Libris, Domino praestante, pandetur.
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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