Song of Solomon 7:3
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
BSB
ASV
Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.
KJV
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
Two breasts, etc. We have spoken abundantly about this verse above; but now it should be briefly recalled that rightly after the belly of the bride, her breasts are commended, because indeed the holy Church offers milk to her little ones, whom she generates in …
The daughters of Jerusalem describe her in the same terms as Jesus Christ in So 4:5. The testimonies of heaven and earth coincide. twins--faith and love.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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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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Song of Solomon 6:6Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
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Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.
And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
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Song of Solomon 4:5Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
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My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.