Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, it would utterly be rejected.

All Commentaries on Song of Songs 8:7 Go To Song of Songs 8

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Drown it. As other fires may be extinguished. He who sinks under persecution, has not real charity. Temptation does not weaken a person, but shows what he is, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 9. (Calmet) He shall. World lings will ridicule his parting with temporal delights, for those which do not appear: but the true lover will make no account of the former. (Calmet)

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