13Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
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My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)These are still the words of Christ to his church, expressing his great esteem of her and affection to her, the opinion he had of her beauty and excellency, the desire he had of, and the delight he had in, her converse and society. And so ought men to love their wives as Christ loves the church, and takes pleasure in it as if it were spotless and had no fault, when yet it is compassed with infirmi…
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