When He appears you shall say to yourself, 'My beloved speaks and says, "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away"' (Song of Songs 2:10). I have opened the way for you, I have broken your bonds, so come to me my beloved. 'Arise, my beloved, my fair one, mydove.' Why does He say 'Arise'? why 'Hasten'? For you I have endured the raging storms, I have borne the waves that would have assailed you; on your account my soul became sorrowful even to death. I rose from the dead after drawing the sting of death and loosing the bonds of hell. Therefore I say to you, 'Arise, my fair one, and come away, my dove; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth'. I have risen from the dead, I have rebuked the storm, I have offered peace. And because, according to the flesh, I was born of the Virgin and of the will of my Father, and because I have increased in wisdom and stature, 'the flowers appear on the earth'.

 

Origen - SS 2:12