Song of Songs 4:6 (WEB)
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
Fathers and councils · 2
Jerome
“…their sword upon their thigh, like Ehud, the left-handed judge, who slew the fattest of foes, a man devoted to the flesh, and cut short all his pleasures.“I will get me,” he says, “to the mountain of myrrh;” to those, that is, who have mortified their bodies; “and to the hill of frankincense,” to the crowds of…” — editor's note: Cant. iv. 6.
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Hippolytus of Rome
- Hippolytus of Rome, Exegetical Fragments §29Doubtful Fragments on the Pentateuch
“When he had made an end, accordingly, of building the ship, Noah, with his sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth, entered the cave of deposits.” — editor's note: Cavernam thesaurorum. [Cant. iv. 6, i.e., Paradise.]
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Cross-references · 1
Genesis 13:9 and Song of Songs 4:6 share the same wording (10 words).