The Song of Songs: Commentary and HomiliesOrigen's Commentary, the first great work of Christian mysticism, is characterized by extraordinary richness of thought and depth of mystical conception. The Homilies seem to have been written only a few years after the Commentary--probably before 244. + |
Contents
THE COMMENTARY | 17 |
BOOK ONE | 54 |
BOOK TWO | 87 |
BOOK THREE | 165 |
BOOK FOUR | 235 |
THE HOMILIES | 261 |
THE FIRST HOMILY | 262 |
THE SECOND HOMILY | 280 |
NOTES | 303 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 305 |
TEXT | 309 |
BOOK ONE | 319 |
BOOK TWO | 324 |
THE HOMILIES | 355 |
INDEX | 371 |
Common terms and phrases
angels Apostle Baehrens beautiful Behold body Book Book of Kings Bride Bride of Christ Bridegroom called Cant Canticle Canticle of Canticles charity Christ Church Clement of Alexandria Comm Commentary cyprus daughters of Jerusalem denotes Divine Scriptures earth Ethiopian Exod faith Father flesh flower fragrance fruit Gentiles glory gold Gospel Greek hart hath hear heart heaven heavenly Hebrew Holy Spirit Homilies interpretation Israel Jesus John King kisses knowledge Lieske look Lord Luke maidens Matt meaning Moses mountains myrrh mystery mystical neighbour Nephew odour ointment Origen passage perfect Pope Damasus Procopius prophets Psalm received Rufinus Saviour says sense shadow Solomon Song of Songs soul speaks spikenard sweet teaching Tertullian thee things thou art fair thou shalt Thy breasts thyself translation tree turtle-dove understand unto vine vineyards voice wine wisdom Word