Go forth, O you daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, and on the day of the gladness of his heart.

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

daughters of Zion: the Church (St. Cyril of Alexandria) mother: the Hebrews are called here the mother of God in the sense that God was to be born from them according to the flesh by means of the Virgin Mary. (Nicholas of Lyra) crowned him: that is with a crown of thorns. (Rufinus) day of his wedding: that is the day of his passion, when he married the Church by his blood. (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

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