A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ
St. John of the Cross's commentary on his love-song between the soul and Christ the Bridegroom, written for Mother Anne of Jesus; the second redaction, in forty stanzas (the Jaén manuscript), tracing the purgative, illuminative and unitive ways to the spiritual marriage. Spanish critical text of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa with his notes; English translation by David Lewis, revised by Benedict Zimmerman, from the old printed text of this redaction.
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Source: Spanish critical text with Silverio's notes (manuscript variants, scripture references) kept as footnotes. OCR of the scan; page furniture removed; footnotes matched to their references page by page; OCR errors corrected by consulting P. Eulogio Pacho's modern text (Editorial Monte Carmelo, via Documenta Catholica Omnia), which was used only to find errors and never copied. Chapter summaries are taken from Silverio's own table of contents. · English translation with its scripture references as footnotes. Lewis translates the old printed text of the second (40-stanza) redaction, so his paragraphs do not always match Silverio's Jaén text line for line; the stanza divisions match. Zimmerman's introduction and the indexes are not included.