I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
KJV
Hebrew original
פָּתַ֤חְתִּֽי אֲנִי֙ לְ/דוֹדִ֔/י וְ/דוֹדִ֖/י חָמַ֣ק עָבָ֑ר נַפְשִׁ/י֙ יָֽצְאָ֣ה בְ/דַבְּר֔/וֹ בִּקַּשְׁתִּ֨י/הוּ֙ וְ/לֹ֣א מְצָאתִ֔י/הוּ קְרָאתִ֖י/ו וְ/לֹ֥א עָנָֽ/נִי
Louis Segond 1910
J'ai ouvert à mon bien-aimé; Mais mon bien-aimé s'en était allé, il avait disparu. J'étais hors de moi, quand il me parlait. Je l'ai cherché, et je ne l'ai point trouvé; Je l'ai appelé, et il ne m'a point répondu.
KJV
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
: Further, melting is a kind of dissolution. But love melts that in which it is: for it is written ( Cant 5:6 ): "My soul melted when my beloved spoke." Therefore love is a dissolvent: therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion. Objection 3: Further, fervor denotes a cer…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
m est voluptas hominis, ut in Cantico: «Pessulum ostii mei aperui dilecto meo [Note: [Col. 1027] 18 Cant. V, 6.] ,» id est, voluntatem cordis mei obtuli Deo meo. Petra est Christus, ut in Psalmis: «Percussit petram, et fluxerunt aquae [Note: [Col. 1027] 19 Psal. LXXVII, 20.…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
apparebo ante faciem tuam? Ex quo mihi diluculo locutus es, anima mea liquefacta est (Psal. XLI, 5; Cant. V, 6) . Ex tunc desiderio tui, omnia membra mea rigescunt, nervi stupescunt, ossa tabescunt, medullae fatiscunt, et omnia interiora mea arescunt. Non confundas me, Domine, ab…
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