Song of Songs 6:8 (WEB)
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“Seeing that not content with dwelling upon his praises, he calls him uxorious, I am surprised that he did not add the words of the Canticles: “There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number,” and those of the First Book of Kings; And he had seven hundred wives,…” — editor's note: Cant. vi. 8.
Read the whole comment“My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her.”” — editor's note: Cant. vi. 8, 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
“On account of the unity of the Church it is one Church; “My dove is one, she is the only one of her mother.”” — editor's note: Cant. vi. 8.
Read the whole comment“For the dove did not teach John without teaching the Church, the Church to which it was said, “My dove is one.”” — editor's note: Cant. vi. 8.
Read the whole comment“…this authority, I say, stands the unity of the Church, which is figured in the dove, concerning which it is said, “My dove is one, the only one of her mother.”” — editor's note: Cant. vi. 8.
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