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Gregory the Great, on Song 2:5
Gregory the Great · c. A.D. 540–604
Song 2:5 · Douay-Rheims
“Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples: because I languish with love.”
On this verse:
“For what do we understand by 'arrows' but the words of preachers? For when they are drawn forth by the voice of holy livers, they transfix the hearts of the hearers. With these arrows Holy Church had been struck, who was saying, I am wounded with love.”
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