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
Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
What do we understand by “arrows” but the words of preachers? For when they are drawn forth by the voice of those leading holy lives, they transfix the hearts of the hearers. With these arrows holy church had been struck, saying “I am wounded with love.”