Holy Scripture
Song of Solomon 2:5
A church father on this verse
“What reflection is sweeter than the thought of the magnificence of God? What desire of the soul is so poignant and so intolerably keen as that desire implanted by God in a soul purified from all vice and affirming with sincerity, "I languish with love." Totally ineffable and indescribable are the lightning flashes of…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Strengthen me with perfumes, Stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.
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3As the apple among the trees of the wood, So is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, And his fruit was sweet in my throat.
4Bring me into the wine house; Set love before me.
— Song of Solomon 2:5 —
6His left hand shall be under my head, And his right hand shall embrace me.
7I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the powers and by the virtues of the field, That ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.