Compare this with Song of Solomon 5:15. The marginal reading suggests “Carmel” is the name of a color, equivalent to “carmine” (rendered…

Carmel. The marginal note suggests crimson, from reading charmîl, which preserves the parallelism with the next …

Your head upon you [is] like Carmel
Set with hair, thick and long, as Carmel with plants and trees. Now Christ is th…

The analogies here are different from what they were before, and in the original refer to glorious and splendid clothing. All His saints have such …