Song of Solomon 4:12-5:1
1599 Geneva Bible
12 My sister, my spouse is as a garden enclosed, as a spring shut up, and a fountain sealed up.
13 Thy plants are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweet fruits, as camphire, spikenard,
14 Even spikenard, and saffron: calamus, and cinnamon, with all the trees of incense, myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
15 [a]O fountain of the gardens, O well of living waters, and the springs of Lebanon.
16 Arise, O [b]North, and come, O South, and blow on my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out: let my well-beloved come to his garden, and eat his pleasant fruit.
5 1 Christ calleth his Church to the participation of all his treasures. 2 She heareth his voice. 3 She confesseth her nakedness. 10 She praiseth Christ her husband.
1 I am come into my [c]garden, my sister, my spouse, I gathered my myrrh with my spice: I ate mine honeycomb with mine honey, I drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, and make you merry, O well-beloved.
Footnotes
- Song of Solomon 4:15 The Church confesseth that all her glory and beauty cometh of Christ, who is the true fountain of all grace.
- Song of Solomon 4:16 She desireth Christ to comfort her and to pour the graces of his Spirit upon her, which Spirit is meant by the North and South wind.
- Song of Solomon 5:1 The garden signifieth the kingdom of Christ, where he prepareth the banquet for his elect.
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