George Leo Haydock, on Song 2:7

“I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the, fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.”

“I. Christ permits not his Church to be persecuted, till she be able to bear it. (Worthington) — Roes. Septuagint, “armies and power;” the angels and apostles, who have spread the gospel through the world. It would seem that the Jewish women loved hunting, (Calmet) like those of Phœnicia and Lacedæmon. (Virgil, Æneid i.) They were going to sing, (Calmet) the morning epithalamium, (Theocrit. xviii.) after the first night of the marriage. The second meeting takes place, ver. 8, 17. (Haydock)”

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