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My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
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Verse 12. Up. She is perfectly chaste. Proverbs 5:14. The Church excludes from her society all unbelievers and schismatics. The wicked serve to exercise the virtuous. Her pastors explain the Scriptures, the fountains of saving knowledge. Calmet.—Christ is also a fountain. Zechariah 13:1 and John 7:37. Menochius.
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