Song of Songs 2:15 (WEB)
Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.
Fathers and councils · 2
Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wherefore I have laboured to bring forward, and make clearly manifest, the utterly ill-conditioned carcase of this miserable little fox.” — editor's note: [Cant. ii. 15; St. Luke xiii. 32.]
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Jerome
“…is bit by bit tearing into shreds the seamless vest of the Lord, “woven from the top throughout,” since the foxes are destroying the vineyard of Christ, and since among the broken cisterns that hold no water it is hard to discover “the sealed fountain” and “the garden inclosed,” I think it my duty to consult…” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 15.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Against Heresies I.31.