In the rock’s covert show me your face
Arise and come, my near one, my fair one, my dove; in the covert of the rock beside the outer wall show me your face, and make your voice heard by me, for your voice is sweet and your face is fair. The Bridegroom shows a more secret place: the outer wall is a wall before the wall; there, the veil removed, are face and voice.
Latin
Surge et veni, proxima mea, speciosa mea, columba mea; in velamento petrae iuxta promurale ostende mihi faciem tuam, et auditam mihi fac vocem tuam, quoniam vox tua suavis et facies tua speciosa. Sponsus locum secretiorum ostendit: promurale murus ante murum; ibi velamine remoto facies et vox.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Liber IV (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of Commentary Liber IV. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Liber IV §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Liber IV §§1–20)
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