Song of Solomon 1:13
My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
BSB
ASV
My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh, That lieth betwixt my breasts.
KJV
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
HOMILIES ON THE SONG OF SONGS 3 (395)
The location of the heart is said by experts to lie between the two breasts. Here is where the bride says that she has the sachet in which her treasure is kept. Also, the heart is said to be a source of warmth from which the body's heat is distributed through the arteries. The body's members are thereby heated, animated and nourished by the heart's fire. Therefore the bride has received the good odor of Christ in the governing part of the soul and has made her own heart a kind of sachet for such incense.
He shall lie all night betwixt my breasts - Mr. Harmer contends that it is the bundle of myrrh which the bride says shall lie all night betwixt her breasts, to which she compares the bridegroom, his name being as pleasing and refreshing to her mind, as the myrrh or stacte was to her senses, by its continual fragrance.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ephesians 3:17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
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rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
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Psalms 45:8All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
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The fragrance of your perfume is pleasing; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens adore you.
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Song of Solomon 5:1I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.…
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My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies.
Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind. Breathe on my garden and spread the fragrance of its spices. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choicest fruits.
