Canticle of Canticles 6:9; Ecclesiasticus 50:8
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun? As the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds, and as the flower of roses in the days of spring.
Haydock
Canticle of Canticles
Verse 9. Who. The companions of the spouse, (C.) or the synagogue, admire the Christian Church. W. — Morning. Aurora. The Church dissipated the darkness of paganism; she appeared as the moon under persecution, and as the sun, after the conversion of Constantine. C. — The like will happen in the days of antichrist. Ven. Bede. — The religion of the patriarchs may be compared to the morning-star: that of Moses, to the moon; and of Christ, to the sun. M.