My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Arise, my friend, my beautiful one, and come away - The stanza begins and ends with this refrain, in which the bride reports the invitation of the beloved that she should come forth with him into the open champaign, now a scene of verdure and beauty, and at a time of mirth and mutual affection. The season indicated by six signs Sol 2:11-13 is that of spring after the cessation of the latter rain in the first or paschal month Joel 2:23, i. e., Nisan or Abib, corresponding to the latter part of March and early part of April. Cyril interpreted Sol 2:11-12 of our Lord's Resurrection in the spring.
2:10 Spake - Invited me outwardly by his word, and inwardly by his Spirit. Rise up - Shake off sloth, and disentangle thyself more fully from all the snares of this world. Come - Unto me, and with me; follow me fully, serve me perfectly, labour for a nearer union, and more satisfying communion with me.