I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
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Aquinas Study Bible
AD 2017
Oftentimes God, exercising the souls of the righteous, allows them to fall into divers temptations; and at one time grants their request deliverance, and at another delays the gift, contriving in all ways the profit of those who delight in Him. (Theodoret of Cyrus)
