Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. If. Christ comforts his Church. Worthington.—He doubts not of her fidelity. Menochius.—But the very insinuation, which she had made, causes him to give her this sort of rebuke. God is jealous. Exodus 34:14. He punishes the smallest faults. The spouse perceives this, and runs towards him.—Thyself. He who is ignorant of himself, must be so likewise of God, ( Calmet.) and will be sentenced to feed goats. Saint Jerome ep. xxii. ad Eustoc.—Kids. Which had been detained at home. They will naturally seek their mothers. All creatures will raise the soul to God. Job 12.—Shepherds. Though in the midst of a perverse generation of idolaters and philosophers, the Church will continue steadfast. Menochius.