Il simbolo sponsale come ponte tra le tradizioni greca e Siriaca: Un approccio patristico-litúrgico. parte prima
The spousal symbolism as a bridge between the Greek and Syriac traditions: an approach patristic and liturgical. Part one

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between God and human being was seen, already in the OT, as amorous. The image that was most preferred, with which this relationship could be described, was the spousal image. It was used metaphorically to underline, on the one hand, the desire of the man-bride to go back to paradise, after his fall, and to be with his God bridegroom and to join Him, and on the other, the will of God-bridegroom himself, being in his garden-paradise, to invite His bride to come and to enter to make the nuptial feast with Him. In this first part of our article we will illustrate this symbolic image, starting from its dogmatic base, then presenting its biblical background and at the end analyzing the Greek patristic interpretations of it and how the fathers related this image to the liturgical life of the primitive church.

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