Song of Songs 5:2 (WEB)
I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Fathers and councils · 9
Ambrose of Milan
“And the Church saith, speaking of Him: “The voice of my brother soundeth at the door.”” — editor's note: Song of Solomon v. 2.
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Basil the Great
“Filled with these thoughts may you, even in sleep, enjoy the pleasure of the day, so that you may be permitted to say, “I sleep but my heart waketh,” meditating day and night upon the law of the Lord, to Whom be glory and power world without end.” — editor's note: Cant. v. 2.
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Jerome
“And shall she come to this after the bridal-chamber of God the Son, after the kisses of Him who is to her both kinsman and spouse?” — editor's note: Cant. v. 2, LXX.
Read the whole comment“Let the sound of the clarion arouse your soul, let the divine love carry you out of yourself; and then seek upon your bed him whom your soul loveth, and boldly say: “I sleep, but my heart waketh.”” — editor's note: Cant. v. 2.
Read the whole comment“Your hands have grasped the handle of the plough, the hem of the Saviour’s garment, and His locks wet with the dew of night; do not let them go.” — editor's note: Cant. v. 2.
Read the whole comment“May the watcher and the holy one who came down to Daniel come also to you, that you too may be able to say, “I sleep but my heart waketh.”” — editor's note: Cant. v. 2.
Read the whole comment“Nay rather when one knocketh at her door let her say: “I am a wall and my breasts like towers.” — editor's note: Cant. v. 2.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…with his eyes, ought to be awake with his heart, as it is written in the person of the Church speaking in the Song of Songs, “I sleep, yet my heart waketh.”” — editor's note: Cant. v. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo
“I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?”” — editor's note: Song of Sol. v. 2, 3.
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith IV.2.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.
Cited together in Hexaemeron Homily 7.