Canticles 1:16
The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tigna domorum nostrarum cedrina, laquearia nostra cypressina.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Canticles 1:17
- δοκοὶ οἴκων ἡμῶν κέδροι, φατνώματα ἡμῶν κυπάρισσοι.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Canticles 1:17
- קֹר֤וֹת בָּתֵּ֨ינוּ֙ אֲרָזִ֔ים רחיטנו בְּרוֹתִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Beams. Prelates.
Rafters. Virtuous subjects. (Menochius)
Cypress. The are both odoriferous and incorruptible. The cypress has leaves from top to bottom, and grows not so large as the cedar. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xii. 17.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.