Canticles 1:15
Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sponsa Ecce tu pulcher es, dilecte mi, et decorus ! Lectulus noster floridus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Canticles 1:16
- Ἰδοὺ εἶ καλός, ἀδελφιδός μου, καί γε ὡραῖος· πρὸς κλίνη ἡμῶν σύσκιος,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Canticles 1:16
- הִנְּךָ֨ יָפֶ֤ה דוֹדִי֙ אַ֣ף נָעִ֔ים אַף עַרְשֵׂ֖נוּ רַעֲנָנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Behold. The spouse makes a return of praise, and thanksgiving for her repose, to Christ. (Worthington)
The corporal beauty of Solomon or of our Saviour is not fully ascertained; but their inward perfections are often proclaimed.
Flourishing. Hebrew, "green." Septuagint, "shaded." (Esther i. 5.)
This bed was the womb of the blessed Virgin [Mary], the cross, or any faithful soul. St. Bernard says it is a monastery, retired and adorned with all virtues. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Cassian The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults, Chapter III. To what the soul may be compared which is a prey to the attacks of dejection
For the garment that is moth-eaten has no longer any commercial value or good use to which it can be put; and in the same way the wood that is worm-eaten is no longer worth anything for ornamenting even an ordinary building, but is destined to be burnt in the fire. So therefore the soul also which is a prey to the attacks of gnawing dejection will be useless for that priestly garment which, according to the prophecy of the holy David, the ointment of the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven, first on Aaron’s beard, then on his skirts, is wont to assume: as it is said, “It is like the ointment upon the head which ran down upon Aaron’s beard, which ran down to the skirts of his clothing.” Nor can it have anything to do with the building or ornamentation of that spiritual temple of which Paul as a wise master builder laid the foundations, saying, “Ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of …