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If you don`t know, most beautiful among women, Follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds` tents.
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A Playful or Pointed Reply?
Commentators debate the tone of this verse. Some, like Charles Ellicott, view it as a playful and loving suggestion from the beloved himself, reassuring the woman on how to find him. Others interpret it as an ironic or practical remark from court ladies, telling her to look for her shepherd-lover among the other shepherds.
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Targumist and other Jewish interpreters understand this section to foreshadow the condition of Israel in the wilderness. In a similar way, some…
19th Century
Anglican
If thou know not. —With this verse one subsection of the poem plainly ends. Most of the supporters of the dramatic theory…
Baptist
The voice of my beloved!
The spouse knows it at once; her ear is so trained that she recognizes it as soon as she hears it. Jesus s…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If thou know not Or, "seeing thou knowest not" F13 ; the saints in this imperfect state know but in part,…
