Holy Scripture
Song of Solomon 2:10
A church father on this verse
“Each one of the blessed will first be obliged to travel the narrow and hard way in winter to show what knowledge he has acquired for guiding his life, so that afterwards there may take place what is said in the Song of Songs to the bride when she has safely passed through the winter. For she says, "My beloved answers…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.
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In context
8The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
9My kinsman is like a roe Or a young hart on the mountains of Bethel: Behold, he is behind our wall, Looking through the windows, Peeping through the lattices.
— Song of Solomon 2:10 —
11For, behold, the winter is past, The rain is gone, it has departed.
12The flowers are seen in the land; The time of pruning has arrived; The voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.