10.  At what season does the Saviour rise?  Is it the season of summer, or some other?  In the same Canticles immediately before the words quoted He says, The winter is past, the rain is past and gone Cant. ii. 11.  In παρῆλθεν, ἐπορεύθη ἑαυτῷ the LXX. have imitated the pleonastic use of ןֹל after verbs of motion, corresponding to our idiom “Go away with you,” and to the Dativus Ethicus in Greek and Latin.  See Gesenius Lexicon on this use of לְ, and Ewald, Introductory Grammar, § 217, l. 2.; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the pruning is come Cant. ii. 12:  the singing of birds.  The Hebrew word (רימִזָ֯ means either “cutting,” as in the LXX. τομῆς, Symmachus κλαδεύσεως , and R.V. Marg. “pruning,” or as in A.V. “singing.”.  Is not then the earth full of flowers now, and are they not pruning the vines?  Thou seest how he said also that the winter is now past.  For when this month Xanthicus Xanthicus is the name of the sixth month in the Macedonian Calendar, corresponding nearly to the Jewish Nisan (Josephus, Antiq. II. xiv. 6), and to the latter part of Lent and Easter.  On the tradition that the Creation took place at this season, see S. Ambrose, Hexæmeron, I. c. 4, § 13. is come, it is already spring.  And this is the season, the first month with the Hebrews, in which occurs the festival of the Passover, the typical formerly, but now the true.  This is the season of the creation of the world:  for then God said, Let the earth bring forth herbage of grass, yielding seed after his kind and after his likeness Gen. i. 11:  grass, the herb yielding seed. The LXX. give an irregular construction, Βοτανὴν χόρτου σπεῖρον σπέρμα..  And now, as thou seest, already every herb is yielding seed.  And as at that time God made the sun and moon and gave them courses of equal day (and night), so also a few days since was the season of the equinox.