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I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. See also: Song of Songs 6:2Song of Songs 4:16Song of Songs 4:9-14I 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.” See also: Revelation 3:20Song of Songs 2:14Song of Songs 6:9I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them? See also: Luke 11:7Romans 7:22-23Proverbs 22:13My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him. See also: 1 Kings 3:26Psalms 110:3Song of Songs 1:4I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock. See also: Song of Songs 5:13Ephesians 3:172 Corinthians 7:7I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer. See also: Song of Songs 5:2Hosea 5:15Revelation 3:19The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me. See also: Song of Songs 3:3Acts 20:29-30Matthew 21:33-41I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love. See also: Song of Songs 2:5Song of Songs 2:7Song of Songs 3:5How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? See also: Song of Songs 6:1Song of Songs 1:8Song of Songs 6:9-10My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand. See also: Psalms 45:2Philippians 2:9-11Psalms 45:17His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven. See also: Revelation 1:14Daniel 7:9Song of Songs 7:5His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, washed with milk, mounted like jewels. See also: Song of Songs 4:1Song of Songs 1:15Hebrews 4:13His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh. See also: Song of Songs 1:10Song of Songs 6:2Song of Songs 2:1His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires. See also: Exodus 24:10Isaiah 54:11Exodus 15:6His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. See also: 1 Kings 4:33Revelation 1:15-16Acts 2:28His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. See also: Psalms 45:2Song of Songs 7:9Psalms 148:13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 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 5:1
Ver. 1. Apple-trees. The spouse, submitting to God's will, is content to suffer.
W. --- She addresses her beloved, and as he had praised her, under the similitude of a delightful garden, she invites him into it. C. --- I, &c. Christ again approves of her patience, and invites the saints to congratulate with her. W. ---
He always hears his Church. Matt. xxviii. 20. Mark xi. 24. C. ---
The saints had prayed for Christ's coming; and, accordingly, (Is. lviii. 9.) he takes flesh of the most pure virgin. S. Athan. Synop. --- Comb. Sept. "bread."
--- Milk. Chal. "white wine." But (C.) mile and wine may be taken together.
Clem. Pæd. i. 6. --- The chaste delights of retired and penitent souls are thus described: (C.) Dulciores sunt lacrymæ orantium quam gaudia theatrorum. S.
Aug. Ps. cxxviii. "The tears of penitents are the wine of angels, because in them is the odour of life." S. Bern. ser. 30. --- Inebriated. Not so as to lose reason. Gen. xliii. 34. C.
--- Prot. marg. "be drunk with loves." H. Prov. v. 19. and vii. 18. This wine of love, is the blessed Eucharist, which maketh virgins to spring forth, (Zac. ix.
17.) and is a foretaste of heaven.
Ps. xxxv. 9. It makes us forget the old man, (C.) and raise the mind to God. S.
Cyp. ep. 63. --- To this feast Christ invites his disciples. Matt. xxvi. and 1 Cor.
xi. M. --- Myrrh. Implies that they must be mortified. H.
↑ 1Song of Songs 5:2
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 2. Knocking. The spouse had retired to rest, as her beloved delayed longer than usual. But love is ever on the watch. C. --- She wished to meditate, but is called upon to assist others, and excited by Christ's own example. W. --- Dew.
Having been out in the evening, preceding this fourth night. This denotes imperfect Christians, who remain, indeed, attached to the head, but are a disgrace to it, by their scandalous lives. S. Aug. tr. 37 in Jo. S. Greg. C. --- Such was the state of many in the days of Luther, who accordingly joined the first reformers. See Philips's Life of Card. Pole. p. 364. H. --- Nights. Anacreon (ode 1.) has something similar. Christ knocks by his inspirations and chastisements, and he is better heard in the night of tribulation. Apoc. iii. 20. C.
--- Heretics began to blaspheme Christ, after the Church had only enjoyed a short peace, (M.) after the ten persecutions.
↑ 2Song of Songs 5:3
Ver. 3. Garment. By this is designated the tunic, which was undermost. H. ---
Feet. People in that climate had their feet bare in the house, and even on journies only wore sandals: so that frequent washing was requisite. Gen. xviii.
4. and 1 Tim. v. 10. These excuses were vain, and Christ would not regard them. Matt. xxv. 1. Lu. xii. 35. Theod. C. --- The care of souls brings on many external occupations, which contemplative men would decline. S. Greg. M.
↑ 3Song of Songs 5:4
Ver. 4. Touch. Of me, (Cassiod.) or rather of the door or window. I was grieved that I had made him wait so long. C. --- Heb. "were moved for him." Prot. marg.
"or (as some read) in me."
Pagnin prefers this; Sept. and Mont. the former explanation of halaiv. H. ---
Grace moves us to begin and prosecute good works. S. Greg. Nyssen. Theod.
--- Christ gives it more abundantly, to make the champions of the Church contend with adversity. M.
↑ 4Song of Songs 5:5
Ver. 5. Arose. The Church employs herself in active life, still retaining a desire to return to contemplation. v. 8. W.
↑ 5Song of Songs 5:8
Ver. 8. Love. She seems insensible to the insults received. C. --- The Church prays to the saints on earth, and in heaven. M.
↑ 8Song of Songs 5:10
Ver. 10. Ruddy. Or shining. Et color in niveo corpore purpureus. The divine and human nature, or the conception and sufferings of Christ are thus described.
C. --- The spouse gives this admirable description of her beloved. H.
↑ 10Song of Songs 5:11
Ver. 11. Gold. God is the head of Christ, (1 Cor. xi. 3.) and is most pure. N. ---
The guards of Solomon were powdered with gold dust. Jos. Ant. --- Branches.
Elatæ, or fruits of the male palm-tree. Theod. Plin. xiii. 4.
↑ 11Song of Songs 5:13
Ver. 13. Set by. Prot. " as sweet flowers." --- Choice. Lit. "the first." v. 5. H. ---
The modesty and words of Christ excited admiration. 1 Pet. ii. 21. Jo. vii. 46. C.
--- He exhorted sinners to repent, and rebuked the obstinate. M.
↑ 13Song of Songs 5:14
Ver. 14. Hyacinths. Or purple veins. C. --- Prot. "hands are as gold rings set with the beryl."
Heb. "full of Tharsis," (H.) or precious stones, (M.) from that country, (Ex.
xxviii.) with which his rings were ornamented. C. --- Sapphires. His belt or garment is thus ornamented. Sanchez.
--- The works of Christ proceeded from his infinite charity for mankind, whose salvation he greatly desired, (Mar. vii. 37. and 1 Cor. xv. 22. and 1 Tim. ii. 4.) so that none can perish but by their own fault. C.
↑ 14Song of Songs 5:16
Ver. 16. Lovely. Heb. and Sept. " desires. " M. --- The beauty of Christ is chiefly interior; and all must aim at this perfection, who would be his spouses. Ps.
xliv. 3. C.
↑ 16Song of Songs 5:17
Ver. 17. Seek. The fervent resolve to seek Christ, wherever he may be. W. ---
His praises excite many to love him. M.
↑ 17License: 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