My well-beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: lo, he [a]standeth behind our wall, looking forth of the windows, showing himself through the [b]grates.

10 My well-beloved spake and said unto me, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come thy way.

11 For behold, [c]winter is past: the rain is changed, and is gone away.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:9 Forasmuch as his divinity was hid under the cloak of our flesh.
  2. Song of Solomon 2:9 So that we cannot have full knowledge of him in this life.
  3. Song of Solomon 2:11 That is, sin and error is driven back by the coming of Christ, which is here described by the spring time, when all things flourish.

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