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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
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Verse 7. I. Christ permits not his Church to be persecuted, till she be able to bear it. Worthington.—Roes. Septuagint “armies and power;” the angels and apostles, who have spread the gospel through the world. It would seem that the Jewish women loved hunting, ( Calmet.) like those of Phœnicia and Lacedæmon. Æneid. i. They were going to sing, ( Calmet.) the morning epithalamium, (Theocrit. xviii.) after the first night of the marriage. The second meeting takes place, verse 8, 17. Bible.
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