Thread by @DouayRheims1

In my bed at night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.

I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth, and I found him not.
(Song of Songs 3:1-4 #HolyMass #StMaryMagdalene) #Bible

2. The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?

When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go (SS3:1-4) ~ DouayRheims #Bible #BibleVerses #SongOfSongs

3. [Chapter 3 of the "Canticle of Canticles" in the Douay Rheims Bible is headed: "The spouse seeks Christ. The glory of his humanity."

From the footnotes: "Chap.3. ver.1. 'In my bed at night, &c.'
The Gentiles as in the dark, and seeking in heathen delusion
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4. "..what they could not find, the true God, until Christ revealed his doctrine to them by his 'watchmen',(ver. 3,) that is, by the apostles, and teachers, by whom they were converted to the true faith; and holding that faith firmly..

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5..."the spouse (the Catholic Church) declares, ver. 4, That she 'will not let him go, till she bring him into her mother's house, &c.', that is, till at last, the Jews also shall find him."

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