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Song of Songs 2:11

Song of Songs 2:11 (WEB)

For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

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Jerome

  • “Then the bridegroom makes answer to the bride, and teaches her that the shadow of the old law has passed away, and the truth of the Gospel has come.“Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away, for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.”” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 1, 10–12.

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  • “Then shall your Spouse himself come forward and say: “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away, for lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.”” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 10, 11.

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  • “…and come away: for, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone,” she answered joyfully “the flowers appear on the earth; the time to cut them has come” and “I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.”” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 10–12, Vulg.

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Cyril of Jerusalem

  • “In the same Canticles immediately before the words quoted He says, The winter is past, the rain is past and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the pruning is come.” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 11. In παρῆλθεν, ἐπορεύθη ἑαυτῷ the LXX. have imitated the pleonastic use of ןֹל after verbs of motion, corresponding to our idiom “Go away with…

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