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title: "Song of Songs 6 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "The spouse of Christ is but one: she is fair and terrible. Song of Songs 6 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Song of Songs 6

Song of Songs 6 is chapter 6 of 8 in the Song of Songs. Here are all 12 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The spouse of Christ is but one: she is fair and terrible.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Song of Songs 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Bride: My beloved has descended to his garden, to the courtyard of aromatic plants, in order to pasture in the gardens and gather the lilies.
2. I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me. He pastures among the lilies.
3. Groom to Bride: My love, you are beautiful: sweet and graceful, like Jerusalem; terrible, like an army in battle array.
4. Avert your eyes from me, for they have caused me to fly away. Your hair is like a flock of goats, which have appeared out of Gilead.
5. Your teeth are like a flock of sheep, which have ascended from the washing, each one with its identical twin, and not one among them is barren.
6. Like the skin of a pomegranate, so are your cheeks, except for your hiddenness.
7. There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
8. One is my dove, my perfect one. One is her mother; elect is she who bore her. The daughters saw her, and they proclaimed her most blessed. The queens and concubines saw her, and they praised her.
9. Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who advances like the rising dawn, as beautiful as the moon, as elect as the sun, as terrible as an army in battle array?
10. Bride: I descended to the garden of nuts, in order to see the fruits of the steep valleys, and to examine whether the vineyard had flourished and the pomegranates had produced buds.
11. I did not understand. My soul was stirred up within me because of the chariots of Amminadab.
12. Chorus to Bride: Return, return, O Sulamitess. Return, return, so that we may consider you.

## Song of Songs 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatum, ut pascatur in hortis, et lilia colligat.
2. Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi, qui pascitur inter lilia.
3. Pulchra es, amica mea; suavis, et decora sicut Jerusalem; terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata.
4. Averte oculos tuos a me, quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt. Capilli tui sicut grex caprarum quæ apparuerunt de Galaad.
5. Dentes tui sicut grex ovium quæ ascenderunt de lavacro: omnes gemellis fœtibus, et sterilis non est in eis.
6. Sicut cortex mali punici, sic genæ tuæ, absque occultis tuis.
7. Sexaginta sunt reginæ, et octoginta concubinæ, et adolescentularum non est numerus.
8. Una est columba mea, perfecta mea, una est matris suæ, electa genetrici suæ. Viderunt eam filiæ, et beatissimam prædicaverunt; reginæ et concubinæ, et laudaverunt eam.
9. Quæ est ista quæ progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?
10. Descendi in hortum nucum, ut viderem poma convallium, et inspicerem si floruisset vinea, et germinassent mala punica.
11. Nescivi: anima mea conturbavit me, propter quadrigas Aminadab.
12. Revertere, revertere, Sulamitis! revertere, revertere ut intueamur te.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: Christ, pleased with the good works of his holy and devout servants labouring in his garden, is always present with them: but the words is gone down, are to be understood, that after trying his Church by permitting persecution, he comes to her assistance and she rejoices at his coming.
- Verse 8: “One is my dove” … That is, my church is one, and she only is perfect and blessed.
- Verse 9: “Who is she” … Here is a beautiful metaphor describing the church from the beginning. As, the morning rising, signifying the church before the written law; fair as the moon, shewing her under the light of the gospel: and terrible as an army, the power of Christ's church against its enemies.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).