Song of Songs 1:8 (WEB)
If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“…us know ourselves to be Thine image, let us hear what hath been said in the Song of Songs, “If Thou shalt not have known Thyself, O Thou fair one among women.”” — editor's note: Song of Sol. i. 8.
Read the whole comment“So then this Bridegroom, “fair in beauty above the children of men,” became deformed that He might make His Spouse fair to whom it is said, “O thou beauteous among women,” of whom it is said, “Who is this that cometh up, whitened” with the brightness of light, not the colouring of falsehood!” — editor's note: Cant. i. 8.
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Jerome
“Yet in spite of your excuses He will be wroth, He will swell with anger and say: “If thou know not thyself, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock and feed thy goats beside the shepherd’s tents.”” — editor's note: Cant. i. 8, LXX.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 45.