George Leo Haydock, on Song 1:2

“Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.”

“Will. He is wholly occupied and delighted in keeping God’s commandments. (Worthington) — This distinguishes the saint from him who only refrains from sin through fear. (Calmet) — Qui timet invitus observat. (St. Ambrose) — Yet even servile fear is of some service, as it restrains exterior conduct, and may, in time, give place to filial reverence. (Haydock) — Meditate, and put in practice. (Menochius) — Night. The Jews studied the books of the law so earnestly from their childhood, that they could recite them as easily as they could tell their own names; (Josephus, contra Apion 2.; Deuteronomy vi. 6.) and is it not a shame that many Christians should be so negligent, that they have never so much as read the gospels! (Calmet) though they be eager enough after idle books. The sacred writings are the records of our inheritance. They shew us our true destination, and deserve to be most seriously considered from the beginning to the end. (Haydock)”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.