From James Orr's Food For the Lambs
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Excerpt: Gregory of Nyssa
I slept, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My beloved is knocking.
“Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one”
Song of Solomon 5:2
"We realize that she is still inside and has not yet gone out of doors; she does not yet enjoy that vision face to face, but it still making progress in her participation in good merely by the sounds she hears...
It is the same with one who fixes his gaze on God. It is constantly being discovered anew, and it is always seen as something new and strange in comparison with what the mind has already understood. And as God continues to reveal himself, man continues to wonder; and he never exhausts his desire to see more, since what he is waiting for is always more magnificent, more divine, than all that he has already seen. So too in our text the bride is in wonder and amazement at what she is beginning to see, yet she never, for all that, puts an end to her yearning for further vision..."
-Gregory of Nyssa, Commentary on the Song of Songs