Canticles 7:13
The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Mandragoræ dederunt odorem in portis nostris omnia poma : nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἱ μανδραγόραι ἔδωκαν ὀσμήν, καὶ ἐπὶ θύραις ἡμῶν πάντα ἀκρόδρυα, νέα πρὸς παλαιά, ἀδελφιδέ μου, ἐτήρησά σοι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Canticles 7:14
- הַֽדּוּדָאִ֣ים נָֽתְנוּ רֵ֗יחַ וְעַל פְּתָחֵ֨ינוּ֙ כָּל מְגָדִ֔ים חֲדָשִׁ֖ים גַּם יְשָׁנִ֑ים דּוֹדִ֖י צָפַ֥נְתִּי לָֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Mandrakes. Hebrew dodai comes from the same root as dodi, "my breasts or loves," ver. 12. (Haydock)
It may denote oranges, as mandrakes are not spring-fruits, Genesis xxx. 14. (Calmet)
Yet (Haydock) married women eagerly sought after mandrakes. Here they may signify such as are fit to gain souls to Christ. (Menochius)
And the old. Or great abundance, Leviticus xxvi. 10., and Matthew xiii. 52. (Calmet)
She acknowledges Christ to be the Saviour of all, under the Old and the New Testament. (Worthington)
A doctor of the Church shews Christ in the prophets, and figures of the law, as well as manifested in the gospel. (Aponius, &c.) (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.