Remark on the Song of Songs

Voltaire's dismissive characterization of the Song of Songs as "a guardroom ballad," referenced by Lacordaire only to be refuted.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire mentions Voltaire's famous insult to the Song of Songs

  "that famous Song of Songs, which Voltaire called with such taste a guardroom ballad"