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Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, Which have come up from the washing, Where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
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Purity, Order, and Wholeness
Commentators explain that the primary image is one of perfect health and beauty. The beloved's teeth are praised for their brilliant whiteness (like newly washed sheep), their perfect, even rows (like a shorn flock), and their completeness. The reference to 'twins' signifies that the teeth are perfectly paired, with none missing.
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Regarding this phrase, it can also be rendered as “all of them are equal pairs, and none is bereft among them,” meaning that none has lost h…
19th Century
Anglican
Your teeth ... — that is, white as newly washed sheep. The word translated shorn is only used as a synonym for <…
Baptist
Thy teeth—
Those parts of our spiritual being with which we feed upon Christ, and masticate and assimilate the Word: Thy teeth
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your teeth [are] like a flock [of sheep] That is, like the teeth of a flock of sheep; as her eyes were like the eyes…
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…
