OLD TESTAMENT

Song of Songs 7:8

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I said, “I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.” Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples.

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Verse 8. Up. Christ shed his blood on the cross, and enabled his Church, composed of Jews and Gentiles, who were before barren, to produce a numerous progeny. Calmet.—Mouth. Hebrew and Septuagint “nose.”

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