 | Vincent, Rabon - 2002 - 462 pages
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...with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the...a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.... | |
 | Georges M. Halpern, Peter Weverka - Health & Fitness - 2003 - 180 pages
...with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the...a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. In Jesus' time, spikenard was very costly. This aromatic oil, also called nard oil, is extracted from... | |
 | Paula Bennett - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 286 pages
...pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; . . . with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all chiefest spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon" (4:12-15). What would happen, then, when the gate was opened? The fountain unsealed? The difficulties... | |
 | Ernest Verity - Religion - 2003 - 602 pages
...of Songs 4:12-15, where the loving spouse is described as "a spring shut up, a fountain sealed ... a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." Placing restrictions on fulfilling the sexuality of our marriage partner is forbidden in I Corinthians... | |
 | Mary Wilson Carpenter - Bible - 2003 - 231 pages
...many will make metaphors out of metaphors!" (Song 4:12). But on a later verse in the same chapter, "a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon," Clarke retreats from too "plain" an explanation: "[A] fountain of gardens, may mean one so abundant... | |
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A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, With pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense; Myrrh... 
