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Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
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Verse 1. Lilies. The church teaches, that God is delighted with the pious desires and works of the faithful. Worthington.—She answers the question which had been put to her. Calmet.—God associates lilies, or the perfect, to his angels. He “feeds his flock,” and “is fed,” on works of piety, as Hebrew and Septuagint imply both. Menochius.
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