Song of Songs 1:7 (WEB)
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
Catechism · 1
“Contemplative prayer seeks him "whom my soul loves."” — Catechism footnote: Song 1:7; cf. 3:14.
Fathers and councils · 6
Jerome
“Let your companions be women pale and thin with fasting, and approved by their years and conduct; such as daily sing in their hearts: “Tell me where thou feedest thy flock, where thou makest it to rest at noon,” and say, with true earnestness, “I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 7, R.V.
Read the whole comment“Go out into the streets and charge the daughters of Jerusalem: then shall you find him lying down in the noontide weary and drunk with passion, or wet with the dew of night by the flocks of his companions, or fragrant with many kinds of spices, amid the apples of the garden.” — editor's note: Cf. Cant. i. 7, ii. 5, v. 2.
Read the whole comment“I linger long in the land of the midday sun for it was there and then that the spouse found her bridegroom at rest and Joseph drank wine with his brothers once more.” — editor's note: Cant. i. 7.
Read the whole comment“(For it was in Egypt that Joseph fed his brothers, and when the bride speaks to the Bridegroom her cry is: “tell me where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon.”)” — editor's note: Cant. i. 7.
Read the whole comment“Tell me where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon;” and with the psalmist: “my soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me;” and with Jeremiah: “I have not found it hard.…to follow thee,” for “there is no grief in Jacob neither is there travail in Israel.”” — editor's note: Cant. iii. 1; i. 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“With good reason then to This Shepherd of shepherds, doth His Beloved, His Spouse, His Fair One, but by Him made fair, before by sin deformed, beautiful afterward through pardon and grace, speak in her love and ardour after Him, and say to Him, “Where feedest Thou?”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 7.
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