OLD TESTAMENT

Song of Songs 2:16

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My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

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Verse 16. Feedeth. “His flock.” Septuagint He still retains the fragrancy of lilies. As married people are two in one flesh, (Ephesians 5:31.) Christ and his Church are irrevocably united. Calmet.—She reposes in him. Worthington.

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