The watchmen that went about the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
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Aquinas Study Bible
AD 2017
We read of the Bride, that although the voice of her Beloved touched her heart, she made trivial excuses, and delayed opening the door to Him, and so He withdrew Himself and “was gone.” (St. Francis of Sales) This pain and sense of the absence of God is wont to be so oppressive in those who are going onwards to the state of perfection, that they would die if God did not interpose when the divine wounds are inflicted upon them. (St. John of the Cross)
