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The spouse of Christ is +the church: more especially as to the happiest part of it, viz., perfect +souls, every one of which is his beloved, but, above all others, the +immaculate and ever blessed virgin mother. + + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 1 + +The spouse aspires to an union with Christ, their mutual love for one +another. + +1:1. Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are +better than wine, + +Let him kiss me... The church, the spouse of Christ, prays that he may +love and have peace with her, which the spouse prefers to every thing +delicious: and therefore expresses (ver. 2) that young maidens, that is +the souls of the faithful, have loved thee. + +1:2. Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured +out: therefore young maidens have loved thee. + +1:3. Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The +king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in +thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee. + +Draw me... That is, with thy grace: otherwise I should not be able to +come to thee. This metaphor shews that we cannot of ourselves come to +Christ our Lord, unless he draws us by his grace, which is laid up in +his storerooms: that is, in the mysteries of Faith, which God in his +goodness and love for mankind hath revealed, first by his servant Moses +in the Old Law in figure only, and afterwards in reality by his only +begotten Son Jesus Christ. + +1:4. I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents +of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon. + +I am black but beautiful... That is, the church of Christ founded in +humility appearing outwardly afflicted, and as it were black and +contemptible; but inwardly, that is, in its doctrine and morality, fair +and beautiful. + +1:5. Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my +colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me +the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept. + +1:6. Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou +liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy +companions. + +1:7. If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and +follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents +of the shepherds. + +If thou know not thyself, etc... Christ encourages his spouse to follow +and watch her flock: and though she know not entirely the power at hand +to assist her, he tells her, ver. 8, my company of horsemen, that is, +his angels, are always watching and protecting her. And in the following +verses he reminds her of the virtues and gifts with which he has endowed +her. + +1:8. To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened +thee, O my love. + +1:9. Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels. + +1:10. We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver. + +1:11. While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the +odour thereof. + +1:12. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my +breasts. + +1:13. A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of +Engaddi. + +1:14. Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold thou are fair, thy eyes +are as those of doves. + +1:15. Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is +flourishing. + +1:16. The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress +trees. + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 2 + +Christ caresses his spouse: he invites her to him. + +2:1. I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the valleys. + +I am the flower of the field... Christ professes himself the flower of +mankind, yea, the Lord of all creatures: and, ver. 2, declares the +excellence of his spouse, the true church above all other societies, +which are to be considered as thorns. + +2:2. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. + +2:3. As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved +among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his +fruit was sweet to my palate. + +2:4. He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in +me. + +2:5. Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I +languish with love. + +2:6. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace +me. + +2:7. I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the +harts of the field, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, +till she please. + +2:8. The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the +mountains, skipping over the hills. + +The voice of my beloved: that is, the preaching of the gospel +surmounting difficulties figuratively here expressed by mountains and +little hills. + +2:9. My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth +behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the +lattices. + +2:10. Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my +dove, my beautiful one, and come. + +2:11. For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone. + +2:12. The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is +come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land: + +2:13. The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower +yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come: + +2:14. My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the +wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is +sweet, and thy face comely. + +2:15. Catch us the little foxes that destroy the vines: for our vineyard +hath flourished. + +Catch us the little foxes... Christ commands his pastors to catch false +teachers, by holding forth their fallacy and erroneous doctrine, which +like foxes would bite and destroy the vines. + +2:16. My beloved to me, and I to him who feedeth among the lilies, + +2:17. Till the day break, and the shadows retire. Return: be like, my +beloved, to a roe, or to a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 3 + +The spouse seeks Christ. The glory of his humanity. + +3:1. In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, +and found him not. + +In my bed by night, etc... The Gentiles as in the dark, and seeking in +heathen delusion what they could not find, the true God, until Christ +revealed his doctrine to them by his watchmen, (ver. 3,) that is, by the +apostles, and teachers by whom they were converted to the true faith; +and holding that faith firmly, the spouse (the Catholic Church) +declares, ver. 4, That she will not let him go, till she bring him into +her mother's house, etc., that is, till at last, the Jews also shall +find him. + +3:2. I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the +broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I +found him not. + +3:3. The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom +my soul loveth? + +3:4. When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul +loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my +mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me. + +3:5. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts +of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she +please. + +3:6. Who is she that goeth up by the desert, as a pillar of smoke of +aromatical spices, of myrrh, and frankincense, and of all the powders of +the perfumer? + +3:7. Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, +surrounded the bed of Solomon? + +3:8. All holding swords, and most expert in war: every man's sword upon +his thigh, because of fears in the night. + +3:9. King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus: + +3:10. The pillars thereof he made of silver, the seat of gold, the going +up of purple: the midst he covered with charity for the daughters of +Jerusalem. + +3:11. Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon in the +diadem, wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of the joy of his +heart. + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 4 + +Christ sets forth the graces of his spouse: and declares his love for +her. + +4:1. How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes +are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of +goats, which come up from mount Galaad. + +How beautiful art thou... Christ again praises the beauties of his +church, which through the whole of this chapter are exemplified by a +variety of metaphors, setting forth her purity, her simplicity, and her +stability. + +4:2. Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn, which come up from +the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them. + +4:3. Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks +are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within. + +4:4. Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a +thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men. + +4:5. Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed +among the lilies. + +Thy two breasts, etc... Mystically to be understood: the love of God and +the love of our neighbour, which are so united as twins which feed among +the lilies: that is, the love of God and our neighbour, feeds on the +divine mysteries and the holy sacraments, left by Christ to his spouse +to feed and nourish her children. + +4:6. Till the day break, and the shadows retire, I will go to the +mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. + +4:7. Thou art all fair, O my love, and there is not a spot in thee. + +4:8. Come from Libanus, my spouse, come from Libanus, come: thou shalt +be crowned from the top of Amana, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from +the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards. + +4:9. Thou hast wounded my heart, my sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded +my heart with one of thy eyes, and with one hair of thy neck. + +4:10. How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts +are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above +all aromatical spices. + +4:11. Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk +are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of +frankincense. + +4:12. My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a +fountain sealed up. + +My sister, etc., a garden enclosed... Figuratively the church is +enclosed, containing only the faithful. A fountain sealed up... That +none can drink of its waters, that is, the graces and spiritual benefits +of the holy sacraments, but those who are within its walls. + +4:13. Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the +orchard. Cypress with spikenard. + +4:14. Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees +of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes. + +4:15. The fountain of gardens: the well of living waters, which run with +a strong stream from Libanus. + +4:16. Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my +garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow. + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 5 + +Christ calls his spouse: she languishes with love: and describes him by +his graces. + +5:1. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple +trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered +my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my +honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and +be inebriated, my dearly beloved. + +Let my beloved come into his garden, etc... Garden, mystically the +church of Christ, abounding with fruit, that is, the good works of the +elect. + +5:2. I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: +Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is +full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights. + +5:3. I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my +feet, how shall I defile them? + +5:4. My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were +moved at his touch. + +My beloved put his hand through the key hole, etc... The spouse of +Christ, his church, at times as it were penned up by its persecutors, +and in fears, expecting the divine assistance, here signified by his +hand: and ver. 6, but he had turned aside and was gone, that is, Christ +permitting a further trial of suffering: and again, ver. 7, the keepers, +etc., signifying the violent and cruel persecutors of the church taking +her veil, despoiling the church of its places of worship and ornaments +for the divine service. + +5:5. I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and +my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh. + +5:6. I opened the bolt of my door to my beloved: but he had turned +aside, and was gone. My soul melted when he spoke: I sought him, and +found him not: I called, and he did not answer me. + +5:7. The keepers that go about the city found me: they struck me: and +wounded me: the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. + +5:8. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, +that you tell him that I languish with love. + +5:9. What manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, O thou most +beautiful among women? what manner of one is thy beloved of the beloved, +that thou hast so adjured us? + +5:10. My beloved is white and ruddy, chosen out of thousands. + +My beloved, etc... In this and the following verses, the church +mystically describes Christ to those who know him not, that is, to +infidels in order to convert them to the true faith. + +5:11. His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm +trees, black as a raven. + +5:12. His eyes as doves upon brooks of waters, which are washed with +milk, and sit beside the plentiful streams. + +5:13. His cheeks are as beds of aromatical spices set by the perfumers. +His lips are as lilies dropping choice myrrh. + +5:14. His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly +as of ivory, set with sapphires. + +5:15. His legs as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold. +His form as of Libanus, excellent as the cedars. + +5:16. His throat most sweet, and he is all lovely: such is my beloved, +and he is my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem. + +5:17. Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? +whither is thy beloved turned aside, and we will seek him with thee? + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 6 + +The spouse of Christ is but one: she is fair and terrible. + +6:1. My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical +spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. + +My beloved is gone down into his garden... Christ, pleased with the good +works of his holy and devout servants labouring in his garden, is always +present with them: but the words is gone down, are to be understood, +that after trying his Church by permitting persecution, he comes to her +assistance and she rejoices at his coming. + +6:2. I to my beloved, and my beloved to me, who feedeth among the +lilies. + +6:3. Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem +terrible as an army set in array. + +6:4. Turn away thy eyes from me, for they have made me flee away. Thy +hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Galaad. + +6:5. Thy teeth as a flock of sheep, which come up from the washing, all +with twins, and there is none barren among them. + +6:6. Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden +within thee. + +6:7. There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young +maidens without number. + +6:8. One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of +her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and +declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised +her. + +One is my dove, etc... That is, my church is one, and she only is +perfect and blessed. + +6:9. Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the +moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array? + +Who is she, etc... Here is a beautiful metaphor describing the church +from the beginning. As, the morning rising, signifying the church before +the written law; fair as the moon, shewing her under the light of the +gospel: and terrible as an army, the power of Christ's church against +its enemies. + +6:10. I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the +valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the +pomegranates budded. + +6:11. I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab. + +6:12. Return, return, O Sulamitess: return, return that we may behold +thee. + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 7 + +A further description of the graces of the church the spouse of Christ. + +7:1. What shalt thou see in the Sulamitess but the companies of camps? +How beautiful are thy steps in shoes, O prince's daughter! The joints of +thy thighs are like jewels, that are made by the hand of a skilful +workman. + +How beautiful are thy steps, etc... By these metaphors are signified the +power and mission of the church in propagating the true faith. + +7:2. Thy navel is like a round bowl never wanting cups. Thy belly is +like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. + +7:3. Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. + +7:4. Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in +Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy +nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus. + +7:5. Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of +the king bound in the channels. + +Thy head is like Carmel... Christ, the invisible head of his church, is +here signified. + +7:6. How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights! + +7:7. Thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of +grapes. + +7:8. I said: I will go up into the palm tree, and will take hold of the +fruit thereof: and thy breasts shall be as the clusters of the vine: and +the odour of thy mouth like apples. + +7:9. Thy throat like the best wine, worthy for my beloved to drink, and +for his lips and his teeth to ruminate. + +7:10. I to my beloved, and his turning is towards me. + +7:11. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us abide in +the villages. + +7:12. Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vineyard +flourish, if the flowers be ready to bring forth fruits, if the +pomegranates flourish: there will I give thee my breasts. + +7:13. The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new +and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee. + +Canticle of Canticles Chapter 8 + +The love of the church to Christ: his love to her. + +8:1. Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my +mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may +despise me? + +8:2. I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother's house: +there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and +new wine of my pomegranates. + +8:3. His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me. + +His left hand, etc... Words of the church to Christ. His left hand, +signifying the Old Testament, and his right hand, the New. + +8:4. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor +awake my love till she please. + +8:5. Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, +leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there +thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee. + +Who is this, etc... The angels with admiration behold the Gentiles +converted to the faith: coming up from the desert, that is, coming from +heathenism and false worship: flowing with delights, that is, abounding +with good works which are pleasing to God: leaning on her beloved, on +the promise of Christ to his Church, that the gates of hell should not +prevail against it; and supported by his grace conferred by the +sacraments. Under the apple tree I raised thee up; that is, that Christ +redeemed the Gentiles at the foot of the cross, where the synagogue of +the Jews (the mother church) was corrupted by their denying him, and +crucifying him. + +8:6. Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love +is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire +and flames. + +8:7. Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: +if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall +despise it as nothing. + +8:8. Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our +sister in the day when she is to be spoken to? + +Our sister is little, etc... Mystically signifies the Jews, who are to +be spoken to: that is, converted towards the end of the world: and then +shall become a wall, that is, a part of the building, the church of +Christ. + +8:9. If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she +be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar. + +8:10. I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in +his presence as one finding peace. + +8:11. The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let +out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a +thousand pieces of silver. + +8:12. My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, +and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof. + +8:13. Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me +hear thy voice. + +8:14. Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young +hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 24 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8324.txt or 8324.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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