Holy Scripture
Song of Solomon 2:9
A church father on this verse
“But because we must always be anxious, always attentive; and because the Word of God leaps forth like a young goat, or like a fawn, the soul must always be vigilant and strive for what it seeks and desires to hold.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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In context
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.
8The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
— Song of Solomon 2:9 —
10My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.
11For, behold, the winter is past, The rain is gone, it has departed.