Canticles 2:13
The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ficus protulit grossos suos ; vineæ florentes dederunt odorem suum. Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea, et veni :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἡ συκῆ ἐξήνεγκεν ὀλύνθους αὐτῆς, αἱ ἄμπελοι κυπρίζουσιν, ἔδωκαν ὀσμήν. ἀνάστα ἐλθέ, ἡ πλησίον μου, καλή μου, περιστερά μου. καὶ ἐλθέ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַתְּאֵנָה֙ חָֽנְטָ֣ה פַגֶּ֔יהָ וְהַגְּפָנִ֥ים סְמָדַ֖ר נָ֣תְנוּ רֵ֑יחַ ק֥וּמִי לכי רַעְיָתִ֥י יָפָתִ֖י וּלְכִי לָֽךְ
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against Jovinianus, Book I
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.“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 continent, and in the married. …