Canticles 1:9
Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pulchræ sunt genæ tuæ sicut turturis ; collum tuum sicut monilia.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Canticles 1:10
- τί ὡραιώθησαν σιαγόνες σου ὡς τρυγόνες, τράχηλός σου ὡς ὁρμίσκοι;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Canticles 1:10
- נָאו֤וּ לְחָיַ֨יִךְ֙ בַּתֹּרִ֔ים צַוָּארֵ֖ךְ בַּחֲרוּזִֽים
Haydock's commentary
As, &c. Hebrew, "with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold." (Protestants)
Septuagint here read like the Vulgate c instead of b before thurim, which signifies chains, (ver. 10.; Haydock) as well as turtles. We cannot say that this bird has cheeks. (Calmet)
It is an emblem of the Church mourning, and ever true to her beloved, (Origen, &c.) who bestows a variety of graces on different people, 1 Corinthians xii. 4. (Calmet)
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.