Virtues love Christ; he is justice and peace
We can also take it thus: Equity has loved you — as if to say justice, truth, wisdom, chastity and each of the virtues have loved Christ. Nor is it strange: in other places Christ is usually taken as the substance of the virtues themselves. He himself is justice and peace and truth; and again these embrace him. Justice and peace have kissed.
Latin
Possumus etiam sic accipere: aequitas dilexit te ac si diceretur iustitia, veritas, sapientia, pudicitia et singulae virtutes dilexerunt Christum. Nec mirum: in aliis locis ipsarum virtutum substantia Christus esse solet. Ipse est iustitia et pax et veritas; et rursum hae ipsum amplectuntur. Iustitia et pax osculatae sunt.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber I (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber I. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber I §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber I §§1–20)
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