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Old Testament IX: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of extant commentaries on Ecclesiastes none is so profound as the eight homilies of Gregory of Nyssa, even though they cover only the first three chapters of the book. Joining Gregory among those most frequently excerpted in this volume are Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Origen, John Cassian, John Chrysostom, Athanasius, Bede the Venerable and Jerome. Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil the Great...

he sang like a bride who is getting married and burning with a heavenly love toward her husband, which is the Word of God.… Let us come to the things that must be discussed: first, to examine a few things about love itself, which is the main reason for this writing, and next about the order of the books of Solomon, in which this book seems to have been placed in the third place. Then we will examine the title of the book itself, why it is given the superscription “Song of Songs.” COMMENTARY ON THE
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