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Song of Songs
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How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. See also: Psalms 45:13Luke 15:22Colossians 2:19Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. See also: Jeremiah 1:5Romans 7:4Proverbs 3:8Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe. See also: Song of Songs 4:5Song of Songs 6:6Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. See also: Song of Songs 4:4Psalms 144:12Song of Songs 4:8-9Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses. See also: Isaiah 35:2Song of Songs 4:1Revelation 1:14How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! See also: Psalms 45:11Song of Songs 1:15-16Song of Songs 4:10This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit. See also: Song of Songs 4:5Song of Songs 1:13Psalms 92:12I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples. See also: John 14:21-232 Corinthians 2:14Jeremiah 32:41Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep. See also: Song of Songs 5:16Zechariah 9:15-17Colossians 3:16-17I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me. See also: Psalms 45:11Song of Songs 2:16Song of Songs 6:3Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages. See also: Song of Songs 4:8Song of Songs 2:10-13Song of Songs 1:4Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love. See also: Song of Songs 6:112 Corinthians 13:5Song of Songs 7:6The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved. See also: Genesis 30:14Matthew 13:52Colossians 3:17
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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 7:1
Ver. 1. What? Christ commends the Jews, who shall at last embrace the faith with great fervour.
W. --- Thou. Heb. and Sept. "ye." They join this sentence with the preceding chapter. H. ---
Companies. Heb. "as it were the choir (or dance) of Mahanaim,"( C). where Jacob saw the camps of angels, near the Jaboc. H. Gen. xxxii. --- These dances might be proverbial.
↑ 1Song of Songs 7:4
Ver. 4. Ivory. Preachers communicate the sentiments of the Church, (C.) which prevails against the gates of hell. Cassiod.
↑ 4Song of Songs 7:5
Ver. 5. Carmel. Shaded with trees. C. --- Heb. "purple," which colour was sometimes given to the hair. Propert. ii. 18. --- Channels. Of the dyers. Heb. "to beams." C. --- Prot. "the king is held in the galleries" to view thee. H. --- Christ was all charity, and the faithful are twice dyed, with the love of God, and of their neighbour. M.
↑ 5Song of Songs 7:7
Ver. 7. Grapes. The Church triumphs over her adversaries, and feeds her children. C.
↑ 7Song of Songs 7:8
Ver. 8. Up. Christ shed his blood on the cross, and enabled his Church, composed of Jews and Gentiles, who were before barren, to produce a numerous progeny. C. --- Mouth. Heb. and Sept.
"nose."
↑ 8Song of Songs 7:9
Ver. 9. Lips. Sept. "sufficient for my lips and teeth." H. --- The wine in that country was very thick, when kept a long time. It here denotes charity, or the gospel truths. Lu. v. 37. Acts ii. 13.
Heb. "causing the lips of them who sleep to speak," (C.) as the apostles did, in transports of zeal.
Theod. --- Yet the reading of the Sept. Aquila, &c. seems preferable. C.
↑ 9Song of Songs 7:10
Ver. 10. Turning. The Church is submissive to Jesus Christ, and is entirely actuated by the Spirit.
C. --- She takes the words, as it were out of his mouth, (v. 9.) and answers, worthy, &c.
acknowledging that all the praise belongs to him.
↑ 10Song of Songs 7:11
Ver. 11. Villages. She begs that he would come and remain with her. W. --- She accompanies him into the country, on the morning after the fifth night. There Christ affords the purest delights, (v. 12. C.) and the Church (M.) becomes his mother, while she instructs and feeds others. S.
Greg. hom. M.
↑ 11Song of Songs 7:13
Ver. 13. Mandrakes. Heb. dodai comes from the same root as dodi, "my breasts or loves." v. 12.
H. --- It may denote oranges, as mandrakes are not spring-fruits. Gen. xxx. 14.
C. --- Yet (H.) married women eagerly sought after mandrakes. Here they may signify such as are fit to gain souls to Christ. M. --- And the old. Or great abundance. Lev. xxvi. 10. Matt. xiii. 52. C. --- She acknowledges Christ to be the Saviour of all, under the Old and the New Testament. W. --- A doctor of the Church shews Christ in the prophets, and figures of the law, as well as manifested in the gospel. Aponius, &c. C.
↑ 13License: 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