Song of Songs 7:6 (WEB)
How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
Fathers and councils · 3
Ambrose of Milan
“Thy stature is become like that of a palm-tree, and thy breasts like bunches of grapes.”” — editor's note: Cant. vii. 6, 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But this pleasure is wrapped up in allegorical veils, that the Bridegroom may be more ardently desired, and more joyfully unveiled, and may appear; to whom it is said in this same song, “Equity hath delighted Thee; and the bride who there hears, “Charity is in thy delights.”” — editor's note: Cant. vii. 6.
Read the whole comment“How well becoming thee are the words in that Song of Songs, which is, as it were, thy bridal chant, “That there is love in thy delights”!” — editor's note: Song of Sol. vii. 6, according to the Septuagint. It is very doubtful, however, whether the LXX. themselves held the meaning drawn from their version by…
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