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Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 5. Carmel. Shaded with trees. Calmet.—Hebrew “purple,” which colour was sometimes given to the hair. Propert. ii. 18.—Channels. Of the dyers. Hebrew “to beams.” Calmet.—Prot. “the king is held in the galleries” to view thee. Bible.—Christ was all charity, and the faithful are twice dyed, with the love of God, and of their neighbour. Menochius.
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