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Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: Henna with spikenard plants,
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A Personal Paradise
Commentators explain that the word for "orchard" is the Hebrew "pardes," from which we get "paradise." The groom sees his beloved not just as a garden, but as a paradise filled with precious and choice fruits like pomegranates. This illustrates the immense delight and value Christ finds in His church and in the individual believer.
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The loveliness and purity of the bride are now set forth under the image of a paradise or garden, firmly barred against intruders, filled with the …
19th Century
Anglican
Your plants. —Some have thought the offspring of the marriage intended here; but the poet is plainly, by a new adaptation of the l…
Baptist
Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with a…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates These plants are the members of the church, true converts, believers in Chri…
Observe the gracious call Christ gives to the church. It is:
A precept: This is Christ's call to his church to come away from the w…
