ት Tergwame Greek · Coptic · Ethiopic · Syriac · Armenian · Georgian · Latin

Scholia on the Song of Songs

Scholia in Canticum canticorum · Origen of Alexandria · 3rd century · commentary

Greek · domain: alexandrian · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo 'any,contains,Origen "Scholia" Song of Songs' returns 0 records: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Origen%20%22Scholia%22%20Song%20of%20Songs&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The English Origen-on-the-Song volumes translate other works: 'Origen: The Song of Songs, Commentary and Homilies' (Ancient Christian Writers 26) renders the Latin Commentary and the two homilies, and the 1979 Paulist selection prints only the Prologue to the Commentary plus one homily: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Origen%20%22Commentary%20on%20the%20Song%20of%20Songs%22&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A Greek-text edition of the scholia exists in Italian ('Commentario al Cantico dei cantici: testi in lingua greca', Bologna 2005) but no English version of the scholia was located.

Distinct from the Commentary on the Song of Songs (which survives in Rufinus' Latin abridgement and is translated in ACW 26): these are Greek scholia transmitted in the catenae, printed at PG 17 (La Rue 1857) per __cts__.xml. 7,090 words, untranslated.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
First1KGreek · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 4.0 (encoding); Migne 1857 edition public domain
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg076.1st1K-grc1
Perseus · HTML · CC BY-SA 4.0
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2042.tlg076.1st1K-grc1

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Origen of Alexandria — 647 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Origen of Alexandria : his world and his legacy
· 1988 · eng
"Origen of Alexandria : his world and his legacy." Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1988. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990015346000203941
Origen of Alexandria : master theologian of the early church
McGuckin, John Anthony · 2022 · eng
McGuckin, John Anthony. "Origen of Alexandria : master theologian of the early church." Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156103388903941
Origen of Alexandria : exegetical works on Ezekiel : the fourteen homilies and the Greek fragments of the homilies, commentaries and scholia : text and translation
Origen · 2014 · eng, grc, lat
Origen. "Origen of Alexandria : exegetical works on Ezekiel : the fourteen homilies and the Greek fragments of the homilies, commentaries and scholia : text and translation." Ipswich [England] : Chieftain Publishing, 2014. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153682714303941
Origen of Alexandria and the theology of the Holy Spirit
Miller, Micah M · 2024 · eng
Miller, Micah M. "Origen of Alexandria and the theology of the Holy Spirit." Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2024]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157849992803941
Universal salvation and freedom of choice according to Origen of Alexandria
Sytsma, Lee (Lee W.) · 2020 · eng
Sytsma, Lee (Lee W.). "Universal salvation and freedom of choice according to Origen of Alexandria." Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2020. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155258116503941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Scholia on the Song of Songs” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-origen-scholia-in-canticum