Exposition on the Song of Songs

Name: Exposition on the Song of Songs
Author: Gregory the Great, Pope (c. 540-604)

Gregory the Great, Pope (c. 540-604)

This book is in Latin.

Gregory's short commentary on the first eight verses of the Song of Songs (Cant 1:1-8): why Scripture speaks of the soul's love in the words of bodily love, and how kisses, breasts and the beloved's beauty lead the soul from earthly longing to the love of God. The Latin text, in the orthography of the Corpus Corporum edition; no public-domain English translation is known.

Source: Wikitext removed; the first words, set as a heading in the wikitext, rejoined to the text; one chapter.