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Song 6:1 Where has thy brother gone, good in wives? Where did your brother avoid? And we will seek it with you. If we knew the place of His deviation, we would seek Your beloved together with You. She answers them: Song 6:2 (c-sl. 6:1) My brother went down to his vertograd, to the places of aroma, to graze in the vertograds and collect krin. It is necessary to consider why she says - “both in Her helicopter city, and in her helicopter city”, both singular and plural? St. Paul teaches us that some are the Church (eg Col. 1:24), and he also calls many Churches (eg Rom. 16:16), many, not according to the difference of the Spirit, but according to the difference of places. So, therefore, the Bride: “My brother came down to His vertograd, to the places of aroma, to graze in the vertograds and collect crins.” He shepherds all the Churches, amuses himself with vials of aromas, with vials that have taken incense from Him, collects krins, that is, those who imitate me, and joins them to me. Song 6:3 (c-sl. 6:2) I am my brother and my brother, who feeds in the village. I depend on Him and dedicated myself to Him. For He preferred me to the universe, united me to Himself, made me new from the old, rich from the poor, and beautiful from the ugly, healed the suffering me and scented me with fragrances. “I am my Brother and my Brother to me, who feeds in Krineh.” Symmachus translated - Krin. For He shepherds both those who have become krin and in krin - “she shepherds in krin”. The Groom, having heard the words of the Bride, and taking pity on her that she was looking for Him, thinks about Him day and night, praises her beauty, appears to her and says: Song 6:4 (c-sl. 6:3) You are good, my neighbor, like good will, red like Jerusalem, terrible like you have done. Because of the good deed done for her, he gives her a name. And just as she herself previously, because of her love for Him, called Him desire (Song. 5:16), so here He, because of His own goodwill toward her, calls her: “goodwill.” “Thou art good, my neighbor, like good will.” Good and kind to me. “Red as Jerusalem,” not this earthly one, but the one about which Paul: “But the Jerusalem above is freedom, which is the mother of us all” (Gal. 4:26). My neighbor is like Jerusalem. For he imitates the Angelic way of life. Living on earth, he thinks about heavenly things (Col. 3:2), walking in the flesh, he does not fight according to the flesh (2 Cor. 10:3). "Red as Jerusalem". But not only red, but also “horror as if they were committed.” You amaze those who look at you with your order. There is nothing dishonest in you, nothing vague, nothing mixed, everything is correct, everything is harmonious. Because you have learned to prefer Me, your Bridegroom, to all things. Song 6:5 (cf. 6:4) Turn away your eyes from Me, for you have cried out to me: The beauty of your eyes, their sharpness and your mind attract My love to you. But beware of looking at me immoderately, lest this cause you any harm. I am incomprehensible, impenetrable, and I exceed not only every human, but also the angelic concept. If you transgress the boundaries and want to penetrate your superior powers, then not only will you not comprehend anything, but you will also damage and darken your vision. This is the nature of light. Just as He enlightens the eye, He punishes it with illness for its daring approach to Him. So, “turn your eyes away from Me.” To this he adds the praises attributed to her by Him before: Song 6:5 (cf. 6:4) Your hair is like a flock of goats that rose up out of Gilead: Song 6:6 (c-sl. 6:5) Your teeth are like shorn flocks, even as they rise from the font, all the twins giving birth, and there are no childless ones in them: like scarlet rope is your mouth, and your conversation is red: Song 6:7 (c-sl. 6:6) Like the turning away of your cheek, except for your silence. This was interpreted above ( Song 4:1–3 ). However, He repeats it not without reason, but so that the Bride, remembering her beauty, holds it and does not darken it with any stain. Remember, as if he were saying this, what you were like before and what I made you like, how I exalted you and adorned you. Preserve your beauty forever - I, being with you forever, will take care of their integrity. Song 6:8 (c-sl. 6:7) There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young men, of whom there is no number: It is known that the families of pious people are numerous and varied. Some are higher, others are lower. One received five talents, another two, the third only one (Matthew 25:15). So, by the name of the Bride we must understand those souls who have perfected themselves in every virtue, who, out of love for the Bridegroom alone, do everything and endure everything. Such was Paul, who said: “For we know that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, lower powers, nor the present, nor the future, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God, even in Christ Jesus our Lord.” to Christ, are adorned with the title of the Bride. But there are some who, like mercenaries, strive for piety out of hope for rewards. And these, I think, are called queens here, because they, being prompted by the hope of the eternal Kingdom, cleave to the Bridegroom. “Sixty are queens and eighty concubines.” By concubines we mean those who obey the law of God out of fear of eternal punishment. “And young men, of whom there is no number.” Young people? These are those careless and careless people who do not burn with love for the Bridegroom, are neither occupied with the desire for the eternal Kingdom, nor are struck by the fear of hell, but lead a dissolute life, accepting, however, the dogmas of faith and abhorring all other teachings and heresies. There are a great many of them. “And young men, of whom there is no number.” “There are no numbers” not only because of the multitude, but also because they do not deserve to be counted. “Sixty queens and eighty concubines, and young men, without number,” but the Bride surpasses them all: Song 6:9 (c-sl. 6:8) My dove is one, my perfect one: one is its mother, Through the mother the Jerusalem above is signified (Gal. 4:26). Song 6:9 (c-sl. 6:8) chosen is the one who gave birth to you Although this mother produced these too, she preferred the Bride to all and has her as her chosen daughter. Why Song 6:9 (c-sl. 6:8) you saw your daughter and pleased you, the queen and the concubine, and praised you. For she surpassed everyone, because not out of aspirations for rewards, nor out of fear of punishment, but out of love for the Bridegroom alone, she strives for exploits. So, let us, Christians, try to imitate it with the help of God’s Grace, and together with it we will try to get closer to supreme perfection. At least we won’t be left behind by the queens or concubines. Amen. If Jesus Christ said: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; press, and it will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7), then let us pray to the Spirit of Wisdom to assist us in interpreting the last words of the book of Song of Songs. God often pours out His Grace on the unworthy, precisely for the edification of readers. So, I may be unworthy, but at least for you, my readers, may Grace be poured down upon me from above. Song 6:10 (c-sl. 6:9) Who is this piercing one like the morning, good like the moon, chosen like the sun, fearful like the one who caused? Before this, the Bridegroom praised in detail the beauty of the Bride, extolling her above all, but here His servants, having learned from Him about her beauty and carefully examining her, cry out: “Who is this piercing one like the morning”; they compare it with the morning because it is here on earth - it does not emit full light, it is still imperfect, but when this corruptible, according to the Apostle, is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal is clothed with immortality (1 Cor. 15:53), then its entire light will be revealed. Seeing this, the servants of the Bridegroom compare it not only to the morning, but also to the moon and the sun. For “the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father” (Matthew 13:43). “It’s terrible how they did it” - they are even more surprised at the light and order of it. For in the Bride there is nothing mixed, inseparable or uncertain. She organizes her entire life and affairs according to some pattern and rules. “Horror, as if they were inflicted.” But after this she herself speaks. Song 6:11 (c-sl. 6:10) In the garden of nuts you see in the fruit of the stream, you see when the grapes prosper and the thorns grow. Song 6:12 (c-sl. 6:11) There I will give my breast to you: without understanding my soul, lay me on the chariot of Amminadavli. “The city of nuts has gone downhill.” By a heap of nuts we must mean real life, which, although full of labor and sorrow, however, these labors are not useless, but have hidden fruit in themselves. “Into the city of nuts I snidoh,” that is, into life here. For what? “See in the fruit of the stream, see if the grapes prosper and the thorns grow” - try to correct others, try to admonish them. “There I will give you my breast”: there, in Vertograd, I will teach them. But what? “Without understanding, my soul, place me on the chariot of Aminadavli.” I am amazed, I misunderstand - those whom I wanted to enlighten, to whom I preached salvation, those, paying for good with evil, like chariots, rushed at me, attacked, went on a rampage. To this the servants of the Groom answer her: