You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
He who was spoiled by the soldiers, who was wounded by the spear, that he might heal us by the blood of his sacred wounds, will assuredly answer you (for he is meek and lowly of heart, and gentle in aspect): “Arise, O north wind, and come, O south, and blow upon my garden, that my spices may flow out.” For from all parts of the world has the perfume of holy religion increased, and the limbs of the consecrated Virgin have glowed. “You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem.” So it is not the beauty of the perishable body, which will come to an end with sickness or old age, but the reputation for good deserts, subject to no accidents and never to perish, which is the beauty of virgins. - "Concerning Virgins 1.9.47"
Up to now, the voice of the people of God praising and seeking the Lord, who is not far away from where His lovers are. What follows is His reply. (St. Bede)
Turn. The more one contemplates God's majesty, the more he will be convinced that it is incomprehensible. (Worthington)
To pry into mysteries, may cause Christ to retire. (Theodoret)
