Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples: for I am sick with love.
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Cassiodorus Senator
AD 585
The church proclaims in the Song of Songs, “I am wounded by love.” So the holy people pray to be pierced by the fear of the Lord, so that by dying they may live, whereas earlier by living they were dying.
