Sophia Scriptura

Song of Songs in the early church

[also Song of Solomon; Vulgate: Canticle of Canticles]

Every passage that quotes, alludes to, or echoes Song of Songs, in verse order; passages on the same verse are in date order. References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

VersePassageKindDate
Song 2:9On Prayer 29.9 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 233–234
Song 2:10On Prayer 29.9 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 233–234
Song 2:10Exhortation to Martyrdom 31 · Origenquotation, high confidence235
Song 2:11Exhortation to Martyrdom 31 · Origenquotation, high confidence235
Song 2:12Exhortation to Martyrdom 31 · Origenallusion, medium confidence235
Song 4:8Against Marcion 4.11 · Tertullianquotation, high confidence207/208 (third edition, completed later)
Song 5:2On the Lord's Prayer 31 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidenceca. 252
Song 6:9 (6:8 Vulg.)On the Unity of the Catholic Church 4 · Cyprian of Carthagequotation, high confidence251