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Song of Solomon 6

2 The Church assureth her self of the love of Christ. 3 The praises of the Church. 8 She is but one and undefiled.
1.My welbeloved is gone down into his agarden to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
2.I am my welbeloved’s, and my welbeloved is mine, who fedeth among the lilies.
3.Thou art beautiful, my love, as bTirzáh, comelie as Jerusalém, terrible as an army with banners.
4.cTurn away thine eyes from me: for they overcome me: *thine hair is like a flock of goats, which look down from Gileád.
5.Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep, which go up from the washing, which everyone bring out twins, and none is barren among them.
6.Thy temples are within thy locks as a piece of a pomegranate.
7.There are dthrescore Queens and fourscore concubines, and of the damsels without number.
8.But my dove is alone, and my undefiled, she is the only daughter of her mother, and she is dear to her that bare her: the daughters have seen her and counted her blessed: even the Queens and the concubines, and they have praised her.
9.eWho is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, pure as the sun, terrible as an army with banners!
10.I went down to the fgarden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine budded, and if the pomegranates flourished.
11.gI knew nothing, my soul set me has the chariots of my noble people.
12.Return, return, ô iShulamite, return: return that we may behold thee. What shall you see in the Shulamite, but as the company of an army?

Notes

1-a.
That is, is conversant here in earth among men.
3-b.
Which was a fair and strong city, 1 Kings 14.17.
4-*.
Chap. 4.1.
4-c.
This declares the exceeding love of Christ toward his Church.
7-d.
Meaning, that the gifts are infinite which Christ gives to his Church or that his faithful are many in number.
9-e.
He shows that the beginning of the Church was small, but that it grew up to a great multitude.
10-f.
He went down into the Synagogue to see what fruits came of the Law, and the Prophets.
11-g.
I found nothing but rebellion.
11-h.
I ran as swift as the nobles of my people in their chariots.
12-i.
O you people of Jerusalem for Jerusalem was called Shalém, which signifies peace.