George Leo Haydock, on Song 2:12

“The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:”

“Pruning. Protestants, “singing of birds. ” (Haydock) — But the former version is better. (Septuagint, Symmachus, &c.) — Turtle. Which returns in spring, Isaias viii. 9. (Calmet) — It denotes the preaching of the gospel, (St. Cyril, ador. 15.) or rather the sighs of a holy soul in exile.”

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