Holy Scripture

Song of Solomon 3:11

A church father on this verse
“Every king is proclaimed by soldiers. It was fitting that Jesus also, in figure, be crowned by soldiers. For this reason Scripture says in the Canticles: "Daughters of Jerusalem, come forth and look upon King Solomon in the crown with which his mother has crowned him." But the crown was also a mystery, for it was a re…”
Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th c. — Catechetical Lecture 13:17

Source: Septuagint

Original

11Go forth, ye daughters of Zion, And behold King Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him, In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

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In context

9King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.

10He made the pillars of it silver, The bottom of it gold, The covering of it scarlet, In the midst of it a pavement of love, For the daughters of Jerusalem.

— Song of Solomon 3:11 —

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