Song of Songs 8:5

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Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bore you.

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

She is radiant … because she is resplendent in faith and in works. - "The Prayer of Job and David 4.4.16"

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

She ascends leaning on the Word of God. For those who are more perfect recline upon Christ, just as John also was reclining at Jesus’ bosom. So then she either rested in Christ or reclined upon him or even—since I am speaking of a marriage—as if already given into the power of Christ, she was led to the bridal couch by the bridegroom. - "Isaac, or the Soul 8.72"

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

leaning upon her beloved: meaning, the Church has obtained this tranquility by relying completely on Christ. your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail: This agrees particularly well with the truth of the Gospel. For it says in John 19:25: "Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother," pierced with a sword of sorrow because of her son, in accordance with what holy Simeon had prophesied in Luke 2:53: "And thy own soul a sword shall pierce." (Nicholas lf Lyra) Also in relation to Revelation 12:2, Until the divine angel told Joseph about her (Mary), that the conception was from the Holy Spirit, the Virgin was naturally despondent, blushing before her betrothed, and thinking that he might somehow suspect that she was in labor from a furtive marriage. Her despondency and grief he called, according to the principles of metaphor, crying and anguish; and this is not surprising. (Oecumenius)

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Oh, bride of Christ, beautiful among women! Oh, you in white, coming up and leaning upon your beloved! For by his light you are illuminated that you may shine; by his help you are supported that you may not fall! Oh, how well it is sung to you in that Song of Songs, your wedding song, as it were, that “there is love in your delights!” - "Tractates on the Gospel of John 65.3.2"

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Therefore Christ has given a new commandment to us: that we love one another as he also has loved us. This love renews us that we may be new, heirs of the New Testament, singers of a new song. This love renewed even then those just persons of ancient times, then the patriarchs and the prophets, as it did the blessed apostles later. Even now it also renews the nations, and from the whole human race, which is scattered over the whole world, it makes and gathers a new people, the body of the new spouse, the bride of the Son of God, the Only Begotten about whom it is said in the Song of Songs, “Who is this who comes up in white?” In white, of course, because renewed. By what, except by the new commandment? - "Tractates on the Gospel of John 65.1.2"

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Flowing. Thus speak the companions of the spouse; and the bridegroom, turning to her alone, reminds her of an adventure. The Jews would put this in the mouth of the spouse. (Calmet) Corrupted. Hebrew and Septuagint, "fell in labour, there she was delivered who bore thee. "(Haydock) Christ redeemed Eve, who had been seduced to eat the forbidden fruit, and by his sacred blood on the cross, awoke and healed our fallen nature. (Calmet) The court of heaven admires the Church of the Gentiles, and every pious soul ascending from this world, particularly the blessed Virgin (Worthington) Grace must go before, that our free-will may also walk forward. (Menochius)

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Jerome

AD 420

O mortal, you have now been cleansed in baptism, and it is said of you, “Who is she that comes up, cleansed and leaning upon her beloved?” so that she, indeed, is cleansed, but she is not able to guard her purity, unless she is sustained by the Lord God. You, who but a moment ago were freed from your sins, how is it that you desire to be delivered by the mercy of God, if not in the way I stated, that, when we have done everything, we confess that we of ourselves are insufficient? - "Against the Pelagians 3.15"

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Richard Challoner

AD 1781

Who is this: The angels with admiration behold the Gentiles converted to the faith: coming up from the desert, that is, coming from heathenism and false worship: flowing with delights, that is, abounding with good works which are pleasing to God: leaning on her beloved, on the promise of Christ to his Church, that the gates of hell should not prevail against it; and supported by his grace conferred by the sacraments. Under the apple tree I raised thee up; that is, that Christ redeemed the Gentiles at the foot of the cross, where the synagogue of the Jews (the mother church) was corrupted by their denying him, and crucifying him.

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