Song of Songs 4:13 (WEB)
Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“Then follows: “A garden shut up is my sister, my bride: a garden shut up, a fountain sealed.”” — editor's note: Cant. iv. 12, 13.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“The sacrament of which unity we see expressed also in the Canticles, in the person of Christ, who says, “A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a fountain sealed, a well of living water, a garden with the fruit of apples.”” — editor's note: Cant. iv. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“But neither must we pass over what has been necessarily remarked by you, that the Church, according to the Song of Songs, is a garden enclosed, and a fountain sealed, a paradise with the fruit of apples.” — editor's note: Cant. iv. 12, 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Thus Paradise is the Church, as it is called in the Canticles; the four rivers of Paradise are the four gospels; the fruit-trees the saints, and the fruit their works; the tree of life is the holy of holies, Christ; the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the will’s free choice.” — editor's note: Cant. iv. 13.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in The City of God XIII.21.
Cited together in The City of God XIII.21.
Cited together in The City of God XIII.21.