Tyrannius Rufinus

In his own words on Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 3:10-11

  It is written that there was put on him a crown of thorns. Of this hear in the Canticles the voice of God the Father marveling at the iniquity of Jerusalem in the insult done to his Son: "Go forth and see, you daughters of Jerusalem, the crown with which his mother has crowned him."

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• Song of Solomon 6:9

  Of this church which keeps the faith of Christ entire, hear what the Holy Spirit says in the Canticles, "My dove is one; the perfect one of her mother is one." He then who receives this faith in the church let him not turn aside in the council of vanity, and let him not enter in with those who practice iniquity.

  COMMENTARY ON THE APOSTLES' CREED 39