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The bride’s words may be paraphrased: “You speak of me as a glorious beauty, but I was recently just a simple maiden engaged in rural work. I went …

EXCURSUS III.—ON THE PASSAGE,Song of Solomon 6:11–13.
Translated word for word this passage runs as follows:

I went down into the garden of nuts
This is very properly taken notice of in this song of love; it being usual for…

In retirement and in meditation, the Christian character is formed and perfected. But this is not the retirement of the idle, the self-indulgent, o…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes