Song of Songs 1:3 (WEB)
Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
Fathers and councils · 24
Gregory of Nyssa
“…of the Son’s Divinity,—that kind, namely, which is the result of material efflux, and speaks of Him as the “brightness of glory,” the “savour of ointment,” the “breath of God;” illustrations which in the scientific phraseology we have adopted we ordinarily designate as material efflux.” — editor's note: The reference may be to the Song of Solomon i. 3.
Read the whole comment“…of generation, that which is the result of efflux, to express the Divine Nature of the Son, and calls Him “the brightness of glory,” the “savour of ointment,” the “breath of God,” which our accustomed use, in the scientific discussion we have already made, calls material efflux.” — editor's note: Perhaps Cant. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“What will you say when you hear of the “brightness of glory” or of the “savour of ointment?”” — editor's note: Heb. i. 3, and Cant. i. 3, referred to above.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“But that you may learn more plainly that even a virgin is called in Holy Scripture a “damsel,” hear the Book of the Kings, speaking of Abishag the Shunamite, And the damsel was very fair: for that as a virgin she was chosen and brought to David is admitted.” — editor's note: 1 Kings i. 4. Cyril’s argument is fully justified by the actual usage of “Almah,” which certainly refers to unmarried women in Gen. xxiv. 43; Ex. ii. 8; Cant.…
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Augustine of Hippo
“If there be not, now that His fame is spread abroad in every place by His good odor, virgins also brought unto Christ to be consecrated, of Whom it is said, and to Whom it is said, “There shall be brought unto the King the virgins after her, her companions shall be brought unto Thee.”” — editor's note: Song of Sol. i. 3
Read the whole comment“And yet then, when the “savour” of Thy “ointments” was so fragrant, did we not “run after Thee.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“He looketh through the lattice of our flesh, and He is fair-speaking, and hath inflamed us, and we run after His odours.” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“But since, by the Spirit, we have such a perfume, as to say to our Betrothed, “Because of the savour of Thy good ointments we will run after Thee;” we turn our senses away from our own unsavourinesses, and turning ourselves to Him, we gain some little breathing-time.” — editor's note: Song of Sol. i. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“…after and pursued the odour of sweet savour; who loved the friend of the bridegroom: that is to say, by the Bride Herself, who says in the Song of Songs, “We will run after the sweet savour of thy perfumes.”” — editor's note: Sol. Song i. 3, Lat.
Read the whole comment“He who appeared humble, will Himself appear great, and will rejoice us, as He is even now seen of His Angels.…Let us love and imitate Him: let us run after his ointments, as is said in the Song of Solomon: “Because of the savour of thy good ointments, we will run after thee.”” — editor's note: Song of Sol. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“…our most crafty foe, who fearing your good fame, that so goodly odor of Christ, lest good souls should say, “We will run after the odor of thine ointments,” and so should escape his snares, and in every way desiring to obscure it with his own stenches, hath dispersed on every side so many hypocrites under the garb…” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3, 4
Read the whole comment“And what is of greater name than Christ, the fragrance of whose name is now everywhere perceived, so that even prophecy sings of it beforehand, comparing it in the Song of Songs, to ointment poured forth?” — editor's note: Song of Solomon i. 3.
Read the whole comment“If we must be drawn, let us be drawn by Him to whom one who loves says, “We will run after the odor of Thine ointment.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“As it is said also in the Song of Songs, “Thy name is as ointment poured forth.”” — editor's note: Song of Sol. i. 3.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For “Thy Name is as ointment poured out, therefore have the maidens loved Thee, and drawn Thee.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 2, 3; S. Mark xii. 25.
Read the whole comment“Thy name is as ointment poured forth.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“In like manner that you may believe that that which is shed abroad cannot be common to the creatures but peculiar to the Godhead, the name of the Son is also poured forth, as you read: “Thy Name is as ointment poured forth.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“How many souls regenerated this day have loved Thee, Lord Jesus, and have said: “Draw us after Thee, we are running after the odour of Thy garments,” that they might drink in the odour of Thy resurrection.” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.6Book II
“For they are said to have “run in the odour of his ointments;”and that soul was the vessel which contained that very ointment of whose fragrance all the worthy prophets and apostles were made partakers.” — editor's note: Illi enim in odore unguentorum ejus circumire dicuntur; perhaps an allusion to Song of Sol. i. 3 or to Ps. xlv. 8.
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Gregory the Great
“For you inhale the odour of eternal sweetness, and so ardently love the bridegroom of your soul as to be able to say with the heavenly bride, Draw me after thee; we run in the odour of thine ointments (Cant. i. 3).” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“There, also—the Lord Himself is my witness—when I had shed copious tears and had strained my eyes towards heaven, I sometimes felt myself among angelic hosts, and for joy and gladness sang: “because of the savour of thy good ointments we will run after thee.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3, 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Let us be healed also in the smell, that we be not effeminate; and be sprinkled with dust instead of sweet perfumes, but may smell the Ointment that was poured out for us, spiritually receiving it; and so formed and transformed by it, that from us too a sweet odour may be smelled.” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3.
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John Cassian
“And because he knows he has run unweariedly “after the odour of the ointment” of Christ with ready devotion of heart, and has won the battle of the spiritual combat by the chastisement of the flesh, he boldly concludes and says,…” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3.
Read the whole comment“…and fervour of his spirit, in which he followed Christ with all zeal, crying out with the Bride, “We will run after thee for the odour of thine ointments;” and again, “My soul cleaveth unto thee:” but he also testifies that he has conquered in another kind of contest, saying, “So fight I, not as one that beateth…” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3.
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Cross-references · 42
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.6.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.5.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.6.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.8.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.8.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.8.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.5.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.15.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.15.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins I.3.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 36.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.4.
Cited together in The Institutes V.18.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit I.8.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VIII.4.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9.
Cited together in Confessions IX.7.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 6.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Mysteries Chapter 6.