THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Notes on Solomon's Canticle of Canticles (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))

6:2 My beloved is gone down into his garden: Christ, pleased with the good works of his holy and devout servants labouring in his garden, is always present with them: but the words is gone down, are to be understood, that after trying his Church by permitting persecution, he comes to her assistance and she rejoices at his coming.

Original Douay-Rheims from Project Gutenberg - Massive cleanup of OCR problems and editing done locally.