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Your speech is lovely—perhaps meaning “your mouth,” that is, the organ of speech.

Speech.—Rather, mouth, as the parallelism shows.
Thy temples...—Rather, like a piece of pomeg…

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet,
And well they may be, for what is there for the believer to talk about but the scarlet of the…

Your lips [are] like a thread of scarlet
To a "thread" for thinness, to "scarlet" for colour; thin red lips being be…

If each of these comparisons has a meaning applicable to the graces of the church, or of the faithful Christian, these meanings are not clearly kno…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes