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Clementine Latin Vulgate

Sapientiæ 6:3

Si genuerit quispiam centum liberos, et vixerit multos annos, et plures dies ætatis habuerit, et anima illius non utatur bonis substantiæ suæ, sepulturaque careat : de hoc ergo pronuntio quod melior illo sit abortivus.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Flowers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lilly;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Song of songs;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Lily;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canticles;   ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Flowers;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Song of Songs;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Amazement;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lily,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lily;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Highest;   Wisdom of Solomon, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Shirah, Pereḳ (Pirḳe);  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Pulchra es, amica mea;
suavis, et decora sicut Jerusalem;
terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi, qui pascitur inter lilia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my beloved's: Song of Solomon 2:16, Song of Solomon 7:10, Hebrews 8:10, Revelation 21:2-4

he: Song of Solomon 2:16

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 4:5 - feed Song of Solomon 5:16 - my beloved Isaiah 5:1 - wellbeloved Ezekiel 36:28 - be people Acts 27:23 - whose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine,.... Expressive of interest in Christ, and union to him, and of her faith therein; which still continued, notwithstanding her unbecoming behavior toward Christ, and her many infirmities, Song of Solomon 5:2. Aben Ezra connects the words with the preceding, "my beloved is gone", c. but though he is, and I am left alone, I know I am his, and he is mine which throws a beauty upon the words, and declares the excellency and strength of her faith; for herein lies the glory and excellency of faith, to believe in an unseen Christ: though it may be the Shechinah was with her, as the Targum has it; or Christ had now appeared to her, and was found by her, and therefore, like Thomas, says, "my Lord and my God";

he feedeth among the lilies; Song of Solomon 5:2- :.


 
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