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By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. See also: 1 Peter 1:8Song of Songs 1:7Song of Songs 5:6I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. See also: Romans 13:11Ephesians 5:14Proverbs 8:2-3The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?” See also: Song of Songs 5:7Isaiah 21:6-8Ezekiel 33:2-9I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me. See also: Proverbs 8:17Matthew 7:7Song of Songs 8:2I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires. See also: Song of Songs 2:7Song of Songs 8:4Micah 4:8Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant? See also: Song of Songs 8:5Song of Songs 4:6Revelation 12:14Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel. See also: Hebrews 1:14Song of Songs 3:91 Samuel 8:16They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night. See also: Psalms 45:3Psalms 91:5Isaiah 27:3King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon. See also: Song of Songs 3:7Revelation 14:62 Samuel 23:5He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem. See also: Romans 5:8Song of Songs 1:5Revelation 3:12Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. See also: Isaiah 62:5Hosea 2:19-20Jeremiah 2:2
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Song of Songs 3:1
Ver. 1. Bed. The Church, finding Christ by his own revelation, and not by philosophy, holds him fast. W. --- He had delayed coming at the usual hour, to give us to understand, that he is not found amid delights, nor in a crowd, but that we must seek him diligently, like Magdalene. Jo.
xx. S. Amb. de Isaac. --- The apostles endeavoured to convert the synagogue, but their offers were rejected, and the guards, or princes, persecuted them. M.
C. v. 7. H.
↑ 1Song of Songs 3:3
Ver. 3. City. To prevent fires, &c. God will require the souls of the flock at the hands of his pastors.
↑ 3Song of Songs 3:4
Ver. 4. Me. She was perhaps dead. Women had separate apartments, to which none but the husband could have access. Gen. xxiv. 28. At the end of the marriage-feast, the bride was conducted to her husband's house. Matt. xxv. 1.
C. --- The Jews shall in the end acknowledge Christ, (W.) as the Church desires. M.
↑ 4Song of Songs 3:5
Ver. 5. I. The bridegroom (C.) speaks as c. ii. 7. (W.) and c. viii. 4. He retires early.
↑ 5Song of Songs 3:6
Ver. 6. Who. The female companions of the spouse, (C.) or the bridegroom's friends, (M.) admire her at a distance. C. vi. 9. and viii. 5. C. --- The converted Gentiles change the desert of the world into a paradise, by their good works, which ascend like a perfume. S. Greg. They admire their own conversion, and proclaim that we must fight for heaven, (W.) and adore Christ, the God-man; imitating all his virtues, (H.) and preaching his gospel. M.
↑ 6Song of Songs 3:7
Ver. 7. Bed. Being stationed at the door to prevent any alarm, v. 8. C. --- In the Church Christ finds his repose, and daily produces the only heirs of heaven.
Ven. Bede. --- The angels, saints and pastors watch to defend it against the spirits of darkness. M.
↑ 7Song of Songs 3:9
Ver. 9. Litter. Sept. to conduct his spouse with solemnity; or a throne; though it most probably denotes the bridal bed. C. --- Heb. apiron. Greek, φορειον.
↑ 9Song of Songs 3:10
Ver. 10. Going. Prot. "covering of it of purple." H. --- Death must be endured, if necessary, for the sake of the faith, as this is the highest degree of charity. W.
--- He, &c. Heb. "is prepared for the beloved above the," &c. See Od. v. 660. C.
--- Prot. and Pagn. "the midst thereof being paved (Mont. set on fire) with love for (Mont. by) the daughters." H. --- The most desirable things adorn the litter, or the Church, that all may come to her, who has God to guide her decisions.
M.
↑ 10Song of Songs 3:11
Ver. 11. Go. All are invited to come to Christ, who, in his sacred humanity, which he took of his mother, was crowned in heaven, after his passion. W. S.
Greg. Alcuin. --- The synagogue crowned him with thorns, and gave him the hard bed of the cross. S. Bern. S. Anselm, &c. ---
Bethsabee might live to see the marriage of her son, who owed the crown to her. 3 K. i. 18.
Prov. iv. 3. Both the parties were crowned, (Is. lxi. 10.) and no doubt Solomon would display his usual magnificence. The diadem was a bandage, adorned with embroidery, and precious stones.
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↑ 11License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses