OLD TESTAMENT

Song of Songs 4:13

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Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

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Verse 13. Plants. The various orders of clergy and laity.—Cyprus, (chapter 1:13. Calmet.) whence a healing oil is extracted. Theod.—Prot. “camphire.” Bible.—Spikenard is twice mentioned, as it may be well mixed with cyprus and saffron. Menochius.

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