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Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
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Verse 11. Lips. Teachers who accommodate their instructions to the capacity of their audience, ( Calmet.) giving milk to children. Hebrews 5:13. Bible. 1 Corinthians 3:2.—In allusion, perhaps, to this passage, ( Calmet.) it was customary to give milk and honey to the new baptized. Tert. coron.—Garments. Which were perfumed, (Genesis 27:17. Psalms 44:9) and imply good works, (2 Corinthians 5:3. Romans 13:14. Calmet.) and the external service and prayers of the Church, which ascend like incense. Psalms 140:2. Menochius.
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