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Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Dis-moi, ô toi que mon coeur aime, Où tu fais paître tes brebis, Où tu les fais reposer à midi; Car pourquoi serais-je comme une égarée Près des troupeaux de tes compagnons? -

KJV

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Patristic reading

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  • Augustinus

    Sermones Ad Populum. Classis I. De Scripturis

    filiis hominum, deformis factus ut pulchram faceret sponsam, cui di­ citur, O decora inter mulieres (Cant. 1, 7) ! de quj di­ citur?Quæ eat ista quæ ascendit dealbata (Id. III, 6). illuminata, non colore mendacii fuscata? invenit ergo iste qui vocavit ad nupLias, bominem non habe…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    gna increpatione redarguit, dicens: «Si ignoras te, o pulchra inter mulieres [Note: [Col. 0951] 16 Cant. I, 7.] ,» quasi dicat: si ita simplex [es,] ut, rectum quid sit, ignores; si memoriae excidit, [Col. 0952D] cujus es imbuta doctrinis, et informata exemplis, «egredere a…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    ejus praedicabo. Meridies, tribulatio, ut in Cantico: «Ubi cubes in meridie [Note: [Col. 0997] 30 Cant. I, 7.] ,» id est, in quibus quiescis in persecutione. Meridies, * fides, ut in Genesi [Note: [Col. 0997] 31 Gen. XVIII, 1.] ,» Abraham angelos suscepit in meridie, id est,…

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