17
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
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Verse 17. Break. Or “yield a refreshing air,” (aspiret) in the morning, ( Bible.) and evening, when she begs he will return, (Theod.) as she could not enjoy his company in the day-time. Calmet. 1:1 and 4:6.—Bether. Or the lower Bethoron, near Jerusalem. These short visits in the night, shew the vicissitudes of comfort and dryness in the most perfect. Those who are still addicted to their passions, and to the world, can have no pretensions to such favours, which amply repay any passing desolation. Saint Bernard ser. lxxiv. Calmet.
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