Canticles 5:11
His head is as the finest gold: his locks as branches of palm trees, black as a raven.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Caput ejus aurum optimum ; comæ ejus sicut elatæ palmarum, nigræ quasi corvus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κεφαλὴ αὐτοῦ χρυσίον καὶ φάζ, βόστρυχοι αὐτοῦ ἐλάται, μέλανες ὡς κόραξ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- רֹאשׁ֖וֹ כֶּ֣תֶם פָּ֑ז קְוּצּוֹתָיו֙ תַּלְתַּלִּ֔ים שְׁחֹר֖וֹת כָּעוֹרֵֽב
Haydock's commentary
Gold. God is the head of Christ, (1 Corinthians xi. 3.) and is most pure. (N.[Menochius?])
The guards of Solomon were powdered with gold dust. (Josephus, Jewish Antiquities)
Branches. Elatæ, or fruits of the male palm-tree. (Theodoret) (Pliny, [Natural History?] xiii. 4.)
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.