Liber III spiritual recapitulation
Spiritual recapitulation: dove-eyes are spiritual understanding; the couch a fruitful body; cedar and cypress incorruptible teaching and life; flower and lily Christ for the lowly; the apple the Word’s sweetness; the cellar the mysteries; ordered charity; winter of vices and spring of virtues; the rock the Word’s secret; foxes little thoughts and heresies to be caught.
Latin
Recapitulatio spiritalis: oculos columbae — intelligentia spiritalis; cubile — corpus fructuosum; cedrus/cypressus — doctrina et vita imputribilis; flos/lilium — Christus humilibus; malum — dulcedo Verbi; cella — mysteria; ordo caritatis; hiems vitiorum et ver virtutum; petra — secretum Verbi; vulpes — cogitationes et haereses pusillae capiendae.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber III (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber III. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber III §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber III §§1–20)
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