Sapientiæ 4:13

Nova Vulgata

propagines tuae paradisus malorum punicorum cum optimis fructibus, cypri cum nardo.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Melior est puer pauper et sapiens, rege sene et stulto, qui nescit pr�videre in posterum.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Emissiones tu� paradisus malorum punicorum,
cum pomorum fructibus, cypri cum nardo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

are: Song of Solomon 6:11, Song of Solomon 7:12, Song of Solomon 8:2, Psalms 92:14, Ecclesiastes 2:5, Isaiah 60:21, Isaiah 61:11, John 15:1-3, Philippians 1:11

pleasant: Song of Solomon 6:2

camphire: or, cypress, Song of Solomon 4:14, Song of Solomon 1:14

spikenard: Song of Solomon 1:12, Mark 14:3, John 12:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:53 - precious Exodus 28:34 - General Exodus 39:25 - the pomegranates Exodus 39:26 - pomegranate 2 Chronicles 4:13 - four hundred Psalms 45:8 - All Proverbs 7:17 - with Song of Solomon 4:16 - the spices Song of Solomon 5:1 - I have gathered Song of Solomon 5:5 - my hands Ezekiel 27:19 - cassia Joel 1:12 - the pomegranate Joel 2:8 - sword Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates,.... These plants are the members of the church, true converts, believers in Christ; pleasant plants, plants of renown, planted in the church by Christ's heavenly Father, and shall never be plucked up; or, thy gardens, as it may be rendered n; particular churches, well taken care of and watered; these make an orchard, or are like one, even a paradise, as the word o signifies: it is generally thought to be a Persic word; see Nehemiah 2:8; but Hillerus p derives it from פרר, to "separate", it being a garden, separated and enclosed as before; one like Eden's garden, exceeding pleasant and delightful: and not like an orchard of any sort of trees, but of "pomegranates", of which there were plenty in Canaan, hence called a "land of pomegranates", Deuteronomy 8:8; many places in it had their names from thence, Joshua 15:32. To which believers in Christ may be compared, for the various sorts of them q, for their largeness, fruitfulness, and uprightness; saints have gifts and grace, differing from one another as to size, but all pomegranates, trees of righteousness; some are larger, and excel others, are full of all the fruits of righteousness; but all are, more or less, fruitful and upright in heart: and so the saints of the higher class may be here designed, as those of a lower are by other trees and spices after mentioned;

with pleasant fruits; that are valuable, precious, and desirable, of which an enumeration follows:

camphire, with spikenard; or "cypresses", or "cyprusses with nards" r; both in the plural number: the former may intend cypress trees, so called on account of their berries and fruits growing in clusters; see Song of Solomon 1:14; and the latter, because there are different sorts of them, as "nardus Italica", "Indica", and "Celtica": to these saints may be compared, because pleasant and delightful, of a sweet smell, and rare and excellent.

n Vid. Guisium in Misn. Sheviith, c. 2. s. 2. o פרדס παραδεισος, Sept. "paradisus", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Cocceius, Marckius, Michaelis. p Onomastic. Sacr. p. 291. q Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 13. c. 19. r So Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The loveliness and purity of the bride are now set forth under the image of a paradise or garden fast barred against intruders, filled with rarest plants of excellent fragrance, and watered by abundant streams. Compare Proverbs 5:15-20.

Song of Solomon 4:12

A fountain sealed - i. e., A well-spring covered with a stone Genesis 29:3, and sealed with “the king’s own signet” (Daniel 6:17; compare Matthew 27:66).

Song of Solomon 4:13

Orchard - This is the renderlng here and in Ecclesiastes 2:5 of “pardes” (see Nehemiah 2:8 note). The pomegranate was for the Jews a sacred fruit, and a characteristic product of the land of promise (compare Exodus 28:33-34; Numbers 20:5; Deuteronomy 8:8; 1 Kings 7:18, 1 Kings 7:20). It is frequently mentioned in the Song, and always in connection with the bride. It abounds to this day in the ravines of the Lebanon.

Camphire - Cyprus. See Song of Solomon 1:14 note.

Song of Solomon 4:13-15

Seven kinds of spices (some of them with Indian names, e. g. aloes, spikenard, saffron) are enumerated as found in this symbolic garden. They are for the most part pure exotics which have formed for countless ages articles of commerce in the East, and were brought at that time in Solomon’s ships from southern Arabia, the great Indian Peninsula, and perhaps the islands of the Indian Archipelago. The picture here is best regarded as a purely ideal one, having no corresponding reality but in the bride herself. The beauties and attractions of both north and south - of Lebanon with its streams of sparkling water and fresh mountain air, of Engedi with its tropical climate and henna plantations, of the spice-groves of Arabia Felix, and of the rarest products of the distant mysterious Ophir - all combine to furnish one glorious representation, “Thou art all fair!”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates — This seems to refer to the fecundity of the bride or Jewish queen; to the former it would be a prediction; to the latter, a statement of what had already taken place. The word פרדס pardes, which we translate an orchard, is the same which has given birth to our paradise, a garden of pleasure. The other expressions, in this and the following verse, seem to refer wholly to matters of a connubial nature.