A Commentary on the Song of Songs, from Ancient and Mediaeval Sources (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...the comb pouring out its golden streams. He drinks wine and milk when He looks on a soul delightedly contemplating Him in His double aspect of perfect Godhead and glorified Manhood. And the soul too eats and drinks m its turn, nay, in the same order. For amended ways and good works must come before the grace of contemplation is bestowed. A various reading of the LXX. and Arabic, bread for honeycomb, has pointed more directly a further sense also latent here, and thus some of the FaNy?sr.eg' thers have bidden us see here a prophecy of the Holy Phiio'carp. Eucharist, that Food which is all sweetness and strength, s. Ambros. And Cornelius aptly notes that it was the custom of ii acr.v. 3. the pri1nitiye Church to give the Blessed Sacrament Corn. & Lap. to the newly-baptized, and immediately thereafter, honey and milk, typical of the gentleness, sweetness, and simplicity of the Law of Christ. And as He is not only Lord of the feast spread upon His Altar daily, but fellow-guest, in that His own members are they who feed there, He is said to share in the repast, as He did on that first Maundy Thursday amongst His Apostles. Eat, 0 friends,1 drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. The first question they ask here is, Who are these friends? And the Targum helps us to the answer. As it takes the invitation of the Bride to be the invocation of God unto His Temple, and His reply to Tar denote His sending down fire to consume the oblations, argumso it explains this clause of His summons to the priests to draw near in order to eat their share of the sacrifices, which He leaves for them. And thus we s. Greg, shall see here Christ's invitation to those Apostles?yse?' whom He then called no more servants, but friends, s johnxv. saying, ..".