Song of Songs 1:5 (WEB)
I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“Born, in the first instance, of such parentage we are naturally black, and even when we have repented, so long as we have not scaled the heights of virtue, we may still say: “I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 5.
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Ambrose of Milan
“In which is signified the appearance of holy Church, who says in the Song of Songs: “I am black and comely, O daughters of Jerusalem;” black through sin, comely through grace; black by natural condition, comely through redemption, or certainly, black with the dust of her labours.” — editor's note: Cant. i. 5.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“The Queen of Sheba was a sheep that had come into the place of wolves; the lamp of truth did Solomon give her, who also married her when he fell away.” — editor's note: This was a tradition of the Jews, a tradition based in part on Canticles i. 5.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 3.