Canticles 6:1
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Challoner: My beloved is gone down into his gardenChrist, pleased with the good works of his holy and devout servants labouring in his garden, is always present with them: but the words is gone down, are to be understood, that after trying his Church by permitting persecution, he comes to her assistance and she rejoices at his coming.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sponsa Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatum, ut pascatur in hortis, et lilia colligat.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἀδελφός μου κατέβη εἰς κῆπον αὐτοῦ εἰς φιάλας τοῦ ἀρώματος, ποιμαίνειν ἐν κήποις καὶ συλλέγειν κρίνα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Canticles 6:2
- דּוֹדִי֙ יָרַ֣ד לְגַנּ֔וֹ לַעֲרוּג֖וֹת הַבֹּ֑שֶׂם לִרְעוֹת֙ בַּגַּנִּ֔ים וְלִלְקֹ֖ט שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Lilies. The church teaches, that God is delighted with the pious desires and works of the faithful. (Worthington)
She answers the question which had been put to her. (Calmet)
God associates lilies, or the perfect, to his angels. He "feeds his flock," and "is fed," on works of piety, as Hebrew and Septuagint imply both. (Menochius)
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.