Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples: for I am sick with love.
All Commentaries on Song of Songs 2:5 Go To Song of Songs 2
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Flowers. Hebrew, "bottles. "
Languish. Septuagint, "am wounded. "(Haydock)
Those who enter upon the paths of virtue, are often deprived of consolations. (Calmet)
They must support themselves by reflecting on the words and sufferings of Christ. (St. Ambrose, psalm cxviii. ser. 5.) (Bossuet)
