Tell me where you pasture at noon
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture, where you lie down at noon. Noon is full light and perfect knowledge. The Bride does not want to wander among the flocks of companions — heresies and varied teachings — but to find the Word’s pastures at noon itself. If the Bridegroom does not show her, the soul is in danger of going after the tracks of alien flocks.
Latin
Indica mihi, quem diligit anima mea, ubi pascas, ubi cubes in meridie. Meridies plena lux et perfecta scientia est. Sponsa non vult errare inter greges sodalium — haereses et doctrinas varias — sed in ipso meridie Verbi pascua invenire. Si non indicaverit sponsus, periclitatur anima post vestigia gregum alienorum abire.
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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