Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Song of Solomon 1:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 368, footnote 6 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4449 (In-Text, Margin)

30. I pass to the Song of Songs, and whereas our opponent thinks it makes altogether for marriage, I shall show that it contains the mysteries of virginity. Let us hear what the bride says before that the bridegroom comes to earth, suffers, descends to the lower world, and rises again.[Song of Solomon 1:10-11] “We will make for thee likenesses of gold with ornaments of silver while the king sits at his table.” Before the Lord rose again, and the Gospel shone, the bride had not gold, but likenesses of gold. As for the silver, however, which she professes to have at the marriage, she not only had silver ornaments, but she had them in variety—in widows, in the ...