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I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
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Verse 4. Me. She was perhaps dead. Women had separate apartments, to which none but the husband could have access. Genesis 24:28. At the end of the marriage-feast, the bride was conducted to her husband’s house. Matthew 25:1. Calmet.—The Jews shall in the end acknowledge Christ, ( Worthington.) as the Church desires. Menochius.
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