A Passing By

ἐγὼ ἀνοῖξαι τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ μου χεῖρές μου ἔσταξαν σμύρναν δάκτυλοί μου σμύρναν πλήρη ἐπὶ χεῖρας τοῦ κλείθρου Ἤνοιξα ἐγὼ τῷ ἀδελφιδῷ μου ἀδελφιδός μου παρῆλθεν ψυχή μου ἐξῆλθεν ἐν λόγῳ αὐτοῦ... Ἡνίκα ἔφθασεν ἡ νύμφη τὸ κλεῖθρον ὥστε τὴν ψυχὴν ἀναπετάσαι τῷ λόγῳ, τότε μόνην τὴν χεῖρα καί τινας ἑαυτοῦ δείξας πράξεις παρελήλυθεν, ὡς μηδέπω τὸ πλέον εἰς θέαν χωρούσης τῆς νύμφης· ἅμα δὲ καὶ οἰκονομεῖ πλέον αὐτῆς ἐπιτεῖναι τὸν ἔρωτα· ἐξέρχεται καὶ ἐκδημεῖ τοῦ σῶματος ἡ ψυχὴ διὰ τὸν τοῦ νυμφίου λόγον ἔχουσα ἐν οὐρανῷ τὸ πολίτευμα. Ὠριγένης, Εἰς Τo Ἀσμα Των Ἀσμάτων, Κεφάλαιον E´ Source: Migne PG 17.273b

I opened to my beloved with my hands dripping with myrhh, my fingers coated with myrrh on the latch. I opened to my beloved and my beloved passed by; how my soul went from me with the hearing of his voice... 1 When the bride hurries to the latch, as the soul opens to the word, then with the hand only, and what is of it, turning to the correct act, He passes by, as she is not yet fully prepared for the contemplation of the coming of the spouse. And that it may be at the same time that the love of Him may grow greater, He goes by, and the soul passes from the body on account of the word of the groom, having its citizenship in heaven. 2 Origen, Commentary On The Song Of Songs, Chapter 5 1 Song 5.5-6 2 Philip 3.20