Song of Songs 2:5

“For by what other arrows was she stricken, who saith, “Bring me into the house of wine, place me among perfumes, crowd me among honey, for I have been wounded with love”?” — editor's note: . Song ii. 4, 5

“Whence in the Song of Songs it is said, “I am wounded with love.”” — editor's note: Song of Sol. ii. 5.

“…examples of the “coals” are added to the wound of the arrows (for I need not fear to say “the wound,” when the Spouse herself saith, “I am wounded with love”), and then the hay is consumed, and so they are called “devouring coals.”” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 5, LXX.

“Let the unsound be wounded, that, being well wounded, they may be made sound; and let them say, being set now in the Church, in the Body of Christ, let them say with the Church, “I am wounded with Love.”” — editor's note: Cant. ii. 5, LXX.

“And in the Song of Songs the holy Church says that she is wounded with love,—pierced, as it were, with the arrow of love.” — editor's note: Song of Sol. ii. 5.

“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.