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This motif signifies here, that Christ-Beatrice does not yet appear in her true and unveiled form; this form develops, as one knows, gradually during the ascension to the highest heaven (Par. 30, 16–33).

Whatever, therefore, Beatrice’s general symbolical value may be, here her appearance is a figure of the appearance of Christ25 in the midst of the angels and the resurrected; and the cry veni sponsa is an appeal to arise (si levar; saliva), addressed to the angels and the souls of the righteous. It may be understood in an eschatological way, as the words of Christ (Solomon, quasi dal ciel messo, as a type of the Saviour) at the last judgment (novissimo bando), or in a more mystical sense, as an appeal to inner devotion and contemplation of Christ. In fact, the verse veni sponsa, with the following coronaberis, has always been interpreted as an appeal to the Church or Christianity. To prove this I shall quote some texts beginning again with Gregory (Super Cant. expos., Patr. Lat., LXXIX, 511):