Augustine of Hippo, on Song 4:12

“My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.”

“This account can be even better read as an allegory of the church, prophetical of what was to happen in the future. Thus the garden is the church itself, as we can see from the Canticle of Canticles; the four rivers are the four Gospels; the fruit-bearing trees are the saints, as the fruits are their works; and the tree of life is, of course, the Saint of saints, Christ.”

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