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Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
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The Beauty of Godly Speech
Commentators like Spurgeon and Gill see the "thread of scarlet" as a powerful metaphor for a believer's speech. They suggest it represents conversation that is consistently centered on the redeeming blood of Christ. When a believer's words are filled with prayer, praise, and the gospel, their speech becomes "comely"—beautiful and acceptable to God.
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Song Of Solomon
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your speech is lovely—perhaps meaning “your mouth,” that is, the organ of speech.
19th Century
Anglican
Speech.—Rather, mouth, as the parallelism shows.
Thy temples...—Rather, like a piece of pomeg…
Baptist
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet,
And well they may be, for what is there for the believer to talk about but the scarlet of the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your lips [are] like a thread of scarlet To a "thread" for thinness, to "scarlet" for colour; thin red lips being be…
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…
