in this way. For in the Canticles she cries out and says of the bridegroom: “Your eyes are like doves beside running waters.”35 (10) Some have regarded the dove of Noe as prefiguring this dove.36 In Noe’s time salvation and the beginning of a new generation came to men through wood and water; the dove returned at evening carrying a bough of an olive tree; so the Holy Spirit, they say, descended upon the true Noe, the author of the second birth, who unites the aspirations of all nations, of whom the