The loveline and purity of the bride are now set forth under the image of a paradise or garden, firmly barred against intruders, filled with the ra…

Your plants. —Some have thought the offspring of the marriage intended here; but the poet is plainly, by a new adaptation of the l…

Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with a…

Your plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates These plants are the members of the church, true converts, believers in Chri…

Observe the gracious call Christ gives to the church. It is: