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Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That descend from Mount Gilead.
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Commentators explain the vivid imagery used to describe the bride's beauty. Her eyes, seen from behind her veil (a more accurate translation than the KJV's "locks"), are gentle like a dove's. Her dark, flowing hair is compared to a vast flock of goats moving along the lush slopes of Mount Gilead, a picture of abundance and natural beauty.
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You have doves’ eyes ... - Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. So also in Song of Solomon 4:3,[Reference Song of Solomon 6…
19th Century
Anglican
Locks. —Hebrew, tsammah, found elsewhere only in Song of Solomon 6:7 and Isaiah 47:2. The derivation, and the …
Baptist
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Song of Solomon 1:15
"Twice fair, first, through being wa…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair The same as in (Song of Solomon 1:15); here repeated…
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…
