The bride’s answer: “Just as the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild woods, so my beloved excels his associates …

Banqueting house. — Margin: house of wine; not the cellar of the palace, nor the banqueting hall of Solomon, nor the vine…

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit w…

He brought me to the banqueting house Or "into" it ^F17 . The "house of wine" ^F18 , as it is literally in the …

Believers are beautiful, as clothed in the righteousness of Christ; and fragrant, as adorned with the graces of His Spirit; and they thrive under t…