Definitionn. an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later
Last update: October 15, 2015
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His extant commentaries (those on Canticles, on the Prophets, on the book of Psalms and on the Pauline epistles - the last the most valuable) are among the best performances of the fathers of the church. [Please select]
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Thus she composes canticles and dries her tears, feeling that the love of God does not consist in these, but in serving Him with fidelity and devotion. [Please select]
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Whatever purpose may have lurked in his mind, in heart he went clean, single in desire, chanting the canticles of Mary and the Virgin Saints. [Please select]
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"Some of the canticles have plenty of ring and go, and the words matter not, seeing that I do not understand them." [Please select]
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On a level spot an adult male with an uncommonly strong voice for this species was hopping about on the ground and reciting his canticles. [Please select]
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In the second act he is breathing the foul and heated atmosphere of party passion and religious hate, generating the lurid fires which glare in the battailous canticles of his prose pamphlets. [Please select]
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On the occasion of his brother's death he endeavored to preach a sermon on the Canticles, but broke down as Jerome did at the funeral of Paula. [Please select]
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