Likened to my cavalry among Pharaoh’s chariots
I have likened you, my friend, to my cavalry among Pharaoh’s chariots. As far as the Lord’s cavalry differs from Pharaoh’s horses, so far the church from alien daughters. Your cheeks are like a turtledove’s; your neck like necklaces. Simplicity and obedience are the soul’s adornment. We will make you ornaments of gold studded with silver, while the king is on his couch: the Bridegroom’s friends prepare ornaments for a time.
Latin
Equitatui meo in curribus Pharaonis assimilavi te, amica mea. Quantum distat equitatus Domini ab equis Pharaonis, tantum ecclesia a filiabus alienis. Genae tuae sicut turturis; collum tuum sicut monilia: simplicitas et obedientia ornatus animae. Murenulas aureas faciemus tibi vermiculatas argento, donec rex in accubitu suo est: amici sponsi interim ornamenta praeparant.
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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