Glossa Ordinaria

Little chains. Another translation. We will make thee likenesses of gold with distinctions of silver, so long as the king is at his reclining. Which is: the gold, that is, my face, thou shalt not be able to see in the present life, but thou shalt see a likeness of the heavenly brightness through the illumination of the Scriptures, through a glass in a dark manner, until that appear to all which now lies hidden in the Godhead. Little chains. Beautifully the Bridegroom describes her beauty: after these things the Bridegroom comes to be for her at the reclining. Meanwhile, while he sleeps, his companions, that is, the angels, console her: we do not have gold, but we will cause a likeness of gold to be made for thee, until he rise with the marks of silver. Little chains. Whatever good instructions there are, as it were ornaments of the ears. In the little chains, holy Scripture, which within shines with the gold of spiritual senses, and without gleams with the silver of heavenly speech; through the edification of the teachers the guarding of sobriety comes about, and through meditation on divine Scripture. Shining within and without with the gold of divine wisdom and the silver of divine speech. We will make. I and my workmen, whom I have appointed in great number for the dispensing of the seeds of the word.