Section 325
120See p. 387 with n. 95. On the church as the bride of Christ see C. Chavasse, The Bride of Christ (London, 1940), pp. 72-85; P. S. Minear, Images of the Church in the New Testament (Philadelphia, 1960), pp. 54-56, 218-20; E. Best, One Body in Christ (London, 1955), pp. 169-83.
121The simple reflexive (ὡς ἑαυτóν) is used in v. 33 below.
122E.g., TB Qiddušin 41a; Niddāh 17a (in both places “something repulsive” is deḇar megînāh).
123He calls her ra‘yāṯî (LXX ἡ πλησίον μου, as in the quotation in n. 117 above); correspondingly, she calls him rē‘î (LXX πλησίον μου) in Cant. 5:16.