Tell me where you pasture at noon
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture, where you lie down at noon, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of your companions. Noon is full light and perfect knowledge. The Bride seeks the Word’s pastures not at evening or dawn but at noon. Without the Bridegroom’s showing she wanders among alien flocks — doctrines and sects.
Latin
Indica mihi, quem diligit anima mea, ubi pascas, ubi cubes in meridie, ne vagari incipiam post greges sodalium tuorum. Meridies plena lux est et perfecta cognitio. Sponsa non vespere nec diluculo, sed in meridie pascua Verbi quaerit. Sine indicatione sponsi errat inter greges alienos — dogmata et sectas.
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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