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Mar 10, 2021 · Saint Bernard on the Song of songs; Sermones in Cantica canticorum. by. Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. Publication date. 1952. Topics. Bible. Song of Solomon -- Sermons, Bible.
Sep 26, 2008 · It's nice to have it finally available here in pdf format. Famous commentary by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux on the Old Testament book, The Song of Songs, or Canticle of Canticles.
Jan 10, 2020 · On the Song of Songs. Bible. Song of Solomon -- Sermons -- Early works to 1800, Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. Sermones super Cantica Canticorum, Sermones super Cantica Canticorum (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint), Bible.
In the daily trials and combats arising om the flesh, the world and the devil, that are never wanting to those who live devout lives in Christ, you learn by what you experience that man’s life on earth is a ceaseless warfare, and are impelled to repeat your songs day aer day for every victory won.
In his Sermons on the Song of Songs one sees the allegorical method of scriptural exegesis applied to the most beloved book of the Bible in the monastic tradition.
Before the flesh has been tamed and the spirit set free by zeal for truth, before the world's glamour and entanglements have been firmly repudiated, it is a rash enterprise on any man's part to presume to study spiritual doctrines.
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Bernard began composing the Sermons on the Song of Songs in 1135. He continued this work, with several interruptions, throughout the re-mainder of his life. By his death in 1153 he had completed eighty-six sermons, a word-for-word commentary on the Song as far as the first verse of Chapter 3. The Sermons begin essentially where the treatises ...