9. And whence hath the Saviour risen?
He says in the Song of Songs: Rise up, come, My
neighbour Cant.
ii. 10: Rise
up, my love, my fair one, and come away.: and in what
follows, in a cave of the rock v.
14: in the
clefts of the rock.! A cave of the rock He called the cave
which was erewhile before the door of the Saviour’s sepulchre,
and had been hewn out of the rock itself, as is wont to be done here in
front of the sepulchres. For now it is not to be seen, since the
outer cave was cut away at that time for the sake of the present
adornment. For before the decoration of the sepulchre by the
royal munificence, there was a cave in the front of the rock See Index,
Sepulchre.. But where is the rock that had in it
the cave? Does it lie near the middle of the city, or near the
walls and the outskirts? And whether is it within the ancient
walls, or within the outer walls which were built afterwards? He
says then in the Canticles: in a cave of the rock, close to
the outer wall Cant. ii. 14: in the clefts of the
rock, in the secret places of the stairs. The Revised Version
reads, in the covert of the steep place..