Same one as Bridegroom and Bride by economy
The same one is called Bridegroom and Bride, according to places and times. As a bridegroom he has set a mitre on me, and as a bride he has adorned me with ornament. Christ fits his form to each cause: sometimes Bridegroom of the soul, sometimes Bride of the Father, sometimes wisdom that is sought, sometimes Word that seeks. Book I has set out these things concerning the kiss and the breasts and the name and the chambers and equity.
Latin
Idem sponsus dicitur et sponsa, pro locis et temporibus. Sicut sponso imposuit mihi mitram, et sicut sponsam ornavit me ornamento. Christus formam sui singulis accommodat causis: aliquando sponsus animae, aliquando sponsa Patris, aliquando sapientia quae quaeritur, aliquando Verbum quod quaerit. Liber I haec de osculo et uberibus et nomine et cellariis et aequitate digessit.
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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