1 [Sponsa Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatum, ut pascatur in hortis, et lilia colligat. 2 Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi, qui pascitur inter lilia. 3 Sponsus Pulchra es, amica mea; suavis, et decora sicut Jerusalem; terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata. 4 Averte oculos tuos a me, quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt. Capilli tui sicut grex caprarum quæ apparuerunt de Galaad. 5 Dentes tui sicut grex ovium quæ ascenderunt de lavacro: omnes gemellis fœtibus, et sterilis non est in eis. 6 Sicut cortex mali punici, sic genæ tuæ, absque occultis tuis. 7 Sexaginta sunt reginæ, et octoginta concubinæ, et adolescentularum non est numerus. 8 Una est columba mea, perfecta mea, una est matris suæ, electa genetrici suæ. Viderunt eam filiæ, et beatissimam prædicaverunt; reginæ et concubinæ, et laudaverunt eam. 9 Quæ est ista quæ progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata? 10 Sponsa Descendi in hortum nucum, ut viderem poma convallium, et inspicerem si floruisset vinea, et germinassent mala punica. 11 Nescivi: anima mea conturbavit me, propter quadrigas Aminadab. 12 Chorus Revertere, revertere, Sulamitis ! revertere, revertere ut intueamur te.]
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Shulammite
A woman addressed as 'the Shulammite' in the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's song.
Cited in the guide: Song of Songs 6:13
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- 1 Song of Songs 5:9; Song of Songs 1:8; Jeremiah 14:8; Ruth 2:12; Song of Songs 2:2
- 2 Song of Songs 5:13; Revelation 7:17; Song of Songs 1:7–8; Matthew 28:20; John 17:24
- 3 Song of Songs 2:16; Song of Songs 7:10; Hebrews 8:10; Revelation 21:2–4
- 4 Song of Songs 6:10; Psalm 48:2; 1 Kings 14:17; Revelation 21:2; Song of Songs 2:14
- 5 Jeremiah 15:1; Genesis 32:26–28; Exodus 32:10; Song of Songs 4:1–3; Matthew 15:27–28
- 6 Song of Songs 4:2; Matthew 21:19; Matthew 25:30
- 7 Song of Songs 4:3
- 8 Psalm 45:14; 1 Kings 11:3; 1 Kings 11:1; Psalm 45:9; 2 Chronicles 11:21
- 9 Song of Songs 2:14; Psalm 45:9; Genesis 30:13; Revelation 21:9–10; Song of Songs 5:2
- 10 Song of Songs 6:4; Revelation 12:1; Job 31:26; Matthew 17:2; Revelation 22:5
- 11 Song of Songs 7:12; Isaiah 5:2–4; Song of Songs 4:12–15; Song of Songs 5:1; Song of Songs 6:2
- 12 Luke 15:20; Hosea 11:8–9; Jeremiah 31:18–20
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I am come who feed My sheep among the lilies, I am come to feed them in the gardens.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)