APONIO. - Biographical data concerning this writer are lacking; it can only be said that he was probably of Eastern origin and that he seems to have written in Rome, in the fifth century (according to some, in the sixth), his Explanatio in Canticum Canticorum in 12 books, composed on the text of the Vulgate. He too discerned in that canticle symbolized not only the mystical union of Jesus Christ and the Church from creation to the end of the world, in its successive developments, but also the love between the Word and the human soul; and here and there he saw foreshadowed the relations between the two natures of Jesus, the divine and the human. The commentary is written with liveliness, but in its language and style it sometimes betrays the writer’s Eastern origin.
Ed. edited by H. Bottino and G. Martini, Roma 1843.