OLD TESTAMENT

Song of Songs 7:1

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How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

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Verse 1. What? Christ commends the Jews, who shall at last embrace the faith with great fervour. Worthington.—Thou. Hebrew and Septuagint “ye.” They join this sentence with the preceding chapter. Bible.—Companies. Hebrew “as it were the choir (or dance) of Mahanaim,” ( Calmet.) where Jacob saw the camps of angels, near the Jaboc. Bible. Genesis 32.—These dances might be proverbial.

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