雅歌註釋 第 1 章 第 9/9 段

In addition to what has been said, the Bride sets forth these words also to the Bridegroom, out of the utmost humility of mind and out of an intensified longing for the good things to come:

'You who sit in the gardens, the companions give heed; cause me to hear your voice.'

That is: O my Bridegroom, You who repose both upon the intelligible creation and upon the sensible, as upon gardens planted after the manner of Your own will;

there are others besides us who gaze upon You without turning away, since they are not divided by the bond of a body — the wholly immaterial and angelic ranks;

'Flee, my kinsman, and be like the gazelle, or the young of the hinds, upon the mountains of spices.'

For when You summon the righteous into Your kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world, You wholly withdraw from Your providence toward us that comes through sensible things, drawing those who are worthy up to the heights of the graces which spiritually breathe forth their fragrance upon them in deification;

in which, like a gazelle or the young of a hind, destructive of venomous beasts, You put to death the spirits of wickedness that rage against us, bringing to rest their war against us.

But may it be granted that we too escape the bites of the serpents!

And if we should even be bitten, that we may look up to Him who was lifted up on our behalf, and draw healing to ourselves!