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Peter Chrysologus

5th century · AD 450 · Western · 160 passages

Background on Peter Chrysologus

In his own words on Song of Solomon

  • Song of Solomon 4:12

    He so departed from the abode of the womb that the virginal door did not open, and what is sung in the Canticle of Canticles was fulfilled: "My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up."

    SERMON 145

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.