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Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
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Verse 8. Thou. Hebrew “look from.”—Libanus. So Jerusalem is called, Zechariah 11:3. Ribera. Menochius.—Amana. Septuagint “faith.” By it and charity, we must do good. Saint Augustine Ps. lxvii. Amanus separates Cilicia from Syria.—Sanir is the name given by the Phenicians to Hermon, (Eusebius) beyond the Jordan. 1 Chronicles 5:23.—Leopards. It is not fit for women to hunt such beasts. Ovid (Met. x. 10.) thus speaks of Venus: Nuda genu, vestemque ritu succincta Dianæ, and so forth The Church leaves Jerusalem to preach the gospel without fear. Menochius.
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