The interpretation timeline

Song 3:2

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Song 3:2 · Douay-Rheims
“I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.”
Scholastic c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
Rashi Jewish
1040–1105
“I will arise now, etc., I will seek (Exod. 32:11): “And Moses prayed”; (ibid. verse 30): “I will go up to the Lord.””
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.