Song of Songs 2:5

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Sustain me with cakes of raisins, refresh me with apples: for I am sick with love.

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

The Word of God inflicts a wound, but it does not produce a sore. There is a wound of righteous love, there are wounds of charity, as she has said, “I am wounded with love.” The one who is perfect is wounded with love. Therefore the wounds of the Word are good, and good are the wounds of the lover. - "On Virginity 14.91"

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Aponius

AD 500

The love of eternal life sprouts from the love of knowledge, as does the ability to endure persecution from the love of eternal life, and the virtue of fortitude from persecution, and the perfected glory of martyrdom from fortitude. - "Exposition of Song of Songs 3.44"

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

raisins signifies the tender beginnings of virtue while apples signifies their perfection. (St. Bede) sick with love: that is, of being in love, of being inflamed with passion. (St. Augustine)

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

The wound of love is health-giving. The bride of Christ sings in the Song of Songs, “I am wounded with charity.” When is this wound healed? When our desire is sated with good things. It’s called a wound as long as we desire and don’t yet have. Love, you see, in that case, is the same as if it were a pain. When we get there, when we have what we desire, the pain disappears, the love doesn’t cease. - "Sermon 298.2"

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

In the Song of Songs it is said, “I am wounded with love”; that is, of being in love, of being inflamed with passion, of sighing for the bridegroom, from whom she received the arrow of the Word. - "Explanations of the Psalms 45.14"

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Basil the Great

AD 379

What reflection is sweeter than the thought of the magnificence of God? What desire of the soul is so poignant and so intolerably keen as that desire implanted by God in a soul purified from all vice and affirming with sincerity, “I languish with love.” Totally ineffable and indescribable are the lightning flashes of divine Beauty. - "The Long Rules 2"

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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. - "Exposition of the Psalms 119.120"

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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)

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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.” - "Morals on the Book of Job 34.21"

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