OLD TESTAMENT

Song of Songs 7:11

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Come, my beloved! Let’s go out into the field. Let’s lodge in the villages.

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Verse 11. Villages. She begs that he would come and remain with her. Worthington.—She accompanies him into the country, on the morning after the fifth night. There Christ affords the purest delights, (verse 12. Calmet.) and the Church ( Menochius.) becomes his mother, while she instructs and feeds others. Saint Gregory hom. Menochius.

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