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Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Lips. Septuagint “sufficient for my lips and teeth.” Bible.—The wine in that country was very thick, when kept a long time. It here denotes charity, or the gospel truths. Lu. 5:37. Acts 2:13. Hebrew “causing the lips of them who sleep to speak,” ( Calmet.) as the apostles did, in transports of zeal. Theod.—Yet the reading of the Septuagint Aquila, and so forth seems preferable. Calmet.
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