Song of Songs 2:17 (WEB)
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“Hope and endure until the night,—the mother of the wicked,—until the anger of the Lord be overpast, whereof we also were once children who were sometimes darkness, the remains whereof we carry about us in our body, dead on account of sin, “until the day break and the shadows flee away.”” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 17.
Read the whole comment“For all those things in a figure did happen to them; until the day should break, and the shadows should be removed.” — editor's note: Sol. Song ii. 17.
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Ephrem the Syrian
“…and as Lord of Truth, that His servants were His shadow; and whatsoever way His will looked, they directed also their own wills; and because Light was in Him, their shadows were enlightened.” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 17.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.
Cited together in The Pearl. Seven Hymns on the Faith Hymn 6.