Spiritual recapitulation of Book II
Spiritual recapitulation: blackness of penitence and struggle; beauty of God’s image; sun of persecution; mother’s sons as persecutors from the race; vineyards as churches; noon as perfect knowledge; self-knowledge; goats as the wicked; cavalry of the church against Pharaoh; myrrh of the passion; henna of the Spirit’s ointment; dove-eyes; the couch of a fruitful body.
Latin
Recapitulatio spiritalis: nigredo paenitentiae et certaminis; formositas imaginis Dei; sol persecutionis; filii matris persecutores ex gente; vineae ecclesiae; meridies perfecta cognitio; cognitio sui; haedi iniqui; equitatus ecclesiae contra Pharaonem; myrrha passionis; cyprus unguenti Spiritus; oculi columbae; cubile corporis fructuosi.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber II (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber II. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber II §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber II §§1–20)
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