Commentary on the Song of Songs

Commentarius in Canticum Canticorum

Written about 240 to 245, perhaps in Caesarea Maritima (now Caesarea, Israel). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

A commentary that reads the Song as the love of Christ and the soul.

Commentary · first written in Greek (survives in part, in the Latin of Rufinus) · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Eusebius, Church History 6.32: the first five books at Athens about 240, the other five at Caesarea
Place written not sure: Eusebius, Church History 6.32: begun at Athens and finished at Caesarea
Books 1 to 5 were written at Athens.