Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Song of Solomon 6:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 97, footnote 5 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril. (HTML)

On the Words, And Rose Again from the Dead on the Third Day, and Ascended into the Heavens, and Sat on the Right Hand of the Father. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1712 (In-Text, Margin)

... righteousness looked down from heaven. And what will He that is buried in the garden say? I have gathered My myrrh with My spices: and again, Myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices. Now these are the symbols of the burying; and in the Gospels it is said, The women came unto the sepulchre bringing the spices which they had prepared :  Nicodemus also bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes. And farther on it is written, I did eat My bread with My honey[Song of Solomon 6:1]: the bitter before the Passion, and the sweet after the Resurrection. Then after He had risen He entered through closed doors: but they believed not that it was He: for they supposed that they beheld a spirit. But He said, Handle Me and ...