Song of Songs · WEB-C
Song of Songs
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Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? See also: Song of Songs 1:8Song of Songs 5:9Jeremiah 14:8My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies. See also: Song of Songs 5:13Philippians 1:21-23Song of Songs 2:1-2I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies. See also: Song of Songs 2:16Song of Songs 7:10Hebrews 8:10You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners. See also: Song of Songs 6:10Psalms 48:21 Kings 14:17Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead. See also: Exodus 32:10Genesis 32:26-28Jeremiah 15:1Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved among them. See also: Song of Songs 4:2Matthew 25:30Matthew 21:19Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil. See also: Song of Songs 4:3There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number. See also: Psalms 45:141 Kings 11:31 Kings 11:1My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her. See also: Song of Songs 2:14Psalms 45:9Genesis 30:13Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners? See also: Song of Songs 6:4Revelation 12:1Job 31:26I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower. See also: Song of Songs 7:12Acts 15:36Isaiah 5:2-4Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. See also: Hosea 11:8-9Luke 15:20Jeremiah 31:18-20Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim? See also: Genesis 32:2Luke 15:102 Thessalonians 1:10
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 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 6:1
Ver. 1. Lilies. The church teaches, that God is delighted with the pious desires and works of the faithful. W. --- She answers the question which had been put to her. C. --- God associates lilies, or the perfect, to his angels. He "feeds his flock," and "is fed," on works of piety, as Heb. and Sept. imply both. M.
↑ 1Song of Songs 6:2
Ver. 2. Beloved. She speaks thus, when she finds him, and runs to his embraces, having found what trouble her neglect had occasioned. C.
↑ 2Song of Songs 6:3
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 3. Thou. Christ again commends his Church, which is well composed of distinct orders, some governing, others retired from the world, and the rest exercising works of mercy, amid its troubles, who altogether form a complete army, terrible to all her enemies. W. --- Jerusalem.
Which was then one of the finest cities in the east. C. The Catholic Church resembles the heavenly Jerusalem. Theod. --- Terrible. So great is the power of love, (Rom. viii. 35.) in the martyrs, and of the Church, against infidels! C. ---
She is lovely to Christ, and terrible to the wicked. Even her spouse is wounded by her glance. M.
↑ 3Song of Songs 6:4
Ver. 4. Turn. The more one contemplates God's majesty, the more he will be convinced that it is incomprehensible. W. --- To pry into mysteries, may cause Christ to retire. Theod. &c.
↑ 4Song of Songs 6:7
Ver. 7. Number. The true pastors are numerous, but hirelings more so. The faithful are innumerable, and all are united in the same faith. W. --- The spouse and the queens represent the more prefect; the concubines, or wives of inferior degree, those who are led by fear; and the maidens, such as are languid and negligent. Orig. --- The Roman Church is at the head of all metropolitan, episcopal, and parochial Churches. H.
↑ 7Song of Songs 6:9
Ver. 9. Who. The companions of the spouse, (C.) or the synagogue, admire the Christian Church.
W. --- Morning. Aurora. The Church dissipated the darkness of paganism; she appeared as the moon under persecution, and as the sun, after the conversion of Constantine. C. --- The like will happen in the days of antichrist. Ven. Bede.
--- The religion of the patriarchs may be compared to the morning-star: that of Moses, to the moon; and of Christ, to the sun. M.
↑ 9Song of Songs 6:11
Ver. 11. Aminadab. The devil, (Theod.) or probably some renowned general.
Aquila explains it
"of the people's leader," (C.) or "munificent one." Mont. --- I knew not what forced me to flee with such speed, as if I had been panic-struck, (C.) or the spouse professes that she knew not that he had retired into the garden of nuts, or she would not have been under apprehensions of his being ill-treated by Aminadab, as Christ was by Pilate. M.
↑ 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