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Song of Solomon 7

1 The beauty of the Church in all her members. 10 She is assured of Christ’s love toward her.
1.How beautiful are thy agoings with shoes, ô prince’s daughter: the joints of thy thighs are like jewels: the work of the hand of a cunning workman.
2.Thy navel is as a round cup that wanteth not lickour: thy belly is as an heap of wheat compassed about with lilies.
3.bThy two breasts are as two young roes that are twins.
4.Thy neck is like a tower of yvorie: thine eyes are like the fish pools in Heshbón by the gate of Bath-rabbím, thy nose is as the tower of Lebanón, that looketh toward Damascus.
5.Thine head upon thee is as scarlet, and the bush of thine head like purple: the King is tied cin the ^rafters.
6.How fair art thou, and how pleasant art thou, ô my love, in pleasures!
7.This thy stature is like a palm tree, & thy breasts like clusters.
8.I said, I will go up into the palm tree, I will take hold of her boughs: thy breasts shall now be like the clusters of the vine: and the savour of thy nose like apples,
9.And the roof of thy mouth like good wine, which goeth straight to my well beloved, and causeth the lips of the ancient to speak.
10.dI am my welbeloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
11.Come, my welbeloved, let us go forth into the field: let us remain in the villages.
12.Let us get up early to the vines, let us see if the evine flourish, whether it hath budded the small grape, or whether the pomegranates flourish: there will I give thee my love.
13.The mandrakes have given a smell, and in our gates are all sweet things, new and old: my welbeloved, I have kept them for thee.

Notes

1-a.
He describes the comely beauty of the Church in every part, which is to be understood spiritually.
3-b.
Read Chap. 4.5.
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Or, gallery.
5-c.
He delights to come near you and to be in your company.
10-d.
This the spouse speaks.
12-e.
If the people that are called to Christ, bring forth any fruit.