Order of love closing Liber III
The order of love in Book III: from sharing the couch to praise of the flowers, from the apple’s shadow to the cellar of charity, from guarded sleep to the leaping voice, from winter enclosures to showing the face in the rock, from the vineyard’s flower to catching the foxes. Here the steps of the one who progresses are closed.
Latin
Ordo amoris in Libro III: a communione cubilis ad laudem florum, ab umbra mali ad cellam caritatis, a somno custodiae ad vocem salientem, a claustris hiemalibus ad ostensionem faciei in petra, a flore vineae ad captionem vulpium. Gradus proficientis hic clauduntur.
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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