Songs:5

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* I have come into my (note :)The garden signifies the kingdom of Christ , where he prepares the banquet for his elect .(:note ) garden , my sister , [my ] spouse : I have gathered my myrrh with my spice ; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey ; I have drank my wine with my milk : eat , O friends ; drink , yea , drink abundantly , O beloved . * * I have put off my (note :)The spouse confesses her nakedness , and that of herself she has nothing , or seeing that she is once made clean she promises not to defile herself again .(:note ) coat ; how shall I put it on ? I have washed my feet ; how shall I defile them ? * My welbeloued put in his hand by the hole of the doore , and mine heart was affectioned toward him . * I rose up to open to my beloved ; and my hands flowed [with ] myrrh , and my (note :)The spouse who should be anointed by Christ will not find him if she thinks to anoint him with her good works .(:note ) fingers [with ] sweet smelling myrrh , upon the handles of the lock . * I opened to my welbeloued : but my welbeloued was gone , and past : mine heart was gone when hee did speake : I sought him , but I coulde not finde him : I called him , but hee answered mee not . * The (note :)These are the false teachers who wound the conscience with their traditions .(:note ) watchmen that went about the city found me , they smote me , they wounded me ; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me . * I charge you , (note :)She asks of them who are godly (as the law and salvation should come out of Zion and Jerusalem ) that they would direct her to Christ .(:note ) O daughters of Jerusalem , if ye find my beloved , that ye tell him , that I [am ] sick with love . * * My welbeloued is white and ruddie , the chiefest of ten thousand . * His (note :)She describes Christ to be of perfect beauty and comeliness .(:note ) head [is as ] the most fine gold , his locks [are ] bushy , [and ] black as a raven . * His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters , which are washt with milke , and remaine by the full vessels . * His cheekes are as a bedde of spices , and as sweete flowres , and his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe . * His hands as rings of gold set with the chrysolite , his belly like white yuorie couered with saphirs . * His legges are as pillars of marble , set vpon sockets of fine golde : his countenance as Lebanon , excellent as the cedars . * His mouth is as sweete thinges , and hee is wholy delectable : this is my welbeloued , and this is my louer , O daughters of Ierusalem .

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