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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
He says himself, "I am a flower of the field, a lily of the valleys, as a lily among brambles." Consider, then, another place in which the Lord likes to reside, and not only one place but many. He says, "I am a flower of the field," because he often visits the open simplicity of a pure mind;"and the lily of the valleys," for Christ is the bloom of lowliness, not of luxury, voluptuousness, of lasciviousness, but the flower of simplicity and lowliness. …
Jerome
The earth has given its fruit. First it gave a flower. He says in the Song of Songs: "I am the flower of the field and the lily of the valleys." This flower, then, has been made fruit, that we might eat him, that we might feed on his flesh. Do you wish to know what this fruit is? A virgin from a virgin, the Lord from a handmaid, God from man, a son from a mother, fruit from the earth. See what this fruit himself says. …
Bernard of Clairvaux
"I am the flower of the field and the lily of the valleys." While she therefore points to the little bed, he calls to the field, he provokes to exercise. He does not think anything will be more persuasive to her for entering the contest than if he should set forth himself as either the example or the reward of the one contending. "I am the flower of the field." Indeed either meaning is given to be understood in this speech: either that he is the pattern of the one fighting, or the glory of the one triumphing. …
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