Song of Songs 1:4 (WEB)
Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
Fathers and councils · 18
Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“(Cant. 1:4) But let us see what is meant by it.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For now meanwhile thou standest outside the door: but God grant that you all may say, The King hath brought me into His chamber.” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“The King hath brought me into His chamber.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 3, 4.
Read the whole comment“The Church, having put on these garments through the laver of regeneration, says in the Song of Songs: “I am black and comely, O daughters of Jerusalem.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“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“Haste, Lord, and act; stir us up, and call us back; inflame us, and draw us to Thee; stir us up, and grow sweet unto us; let us now love Thee, let us “run after Thee.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“…the Church, perfect now and without spot and wrinkle, worthy, that is, of the hidden things of the Son, in that “the King hath brought her into His chamber,” say to her spouse, “Thou satest upon the throne Who judgest equity,” in that Thou hast risen from the dead, and ascended up into heaven, and sittest at the…” — editor's note: Song of Sol. i. 4.
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“The love which is in charity: that loving, thou mayest run; running, mayest love.” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
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“For she says, “The King hath brought me into His chamber.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“But this pleasure is wrapped up in allegorical veils, that the Bridegroom may be more ardently desired, and more joyfully unveiled, and may appear; to whom it is said in this same song, “Equity hath delighted Thee; and the bride who there hears, “Charity is in thy delights.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“…whereof it is said, “In the beginning was the Word;” and to be susceptible of smell, of which it is said, “We will run after the smell of thy ointments;” and to drink of the fountain, whereof it is said, “With Thee is the fountain of life;” and to enjoy the sense of touch, when it is said, “But it is good for me…” — editor's note: Song of Sol. i. 4, Septuagint.
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Jerome
“When once you desire the wisdom of the true Solomon and come to Him, He will avow all His knowledge to you; He will lead you into His chamber with His royal hand; He will miraculously change your complexion so that it shall be said of you, “Who is this that goeth up and hath been made white?”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“To the soul of that just man—so he declared—the words of the Song were applicable: “the king hath brought me into his chambers;” and he went on to speak thus: “while in his other books Origen surpasses all former writers, in dealing with the Song of Songs he surpasses himself.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4. See the Preface to Origen on the Canticles translated in this volume.
Read the whole comment“Wounded with love’s arrow let her say to her beloved, “the king hath brought me into his chambers.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“Thereupon the bride herself rejoices and says: “the king hath brought me into his chambers,” and the choir of her companions responds: “the king’s daughter is all glorious within.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“And,“The king led me into his bedchamber.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 4.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.6.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.6.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 80.
Cited together in Letters Letter 80.
Cited together in Letters Letter 80.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:41–46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:41–46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:41–46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 6:41–46 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 80.
Cited together in Letters Letter 80.
Cited together in Concerning Virgins II.6.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 36.
Cited together in Confessions IX.7.