Canticles 7:5
Thy head is like Carmel: and the hairs of thy head as the purple of the king bound in the channels.
Challoner: Thy head is like CarmelChrist, the invisible head of his church, is here signified.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Caput tuum ut Carmelus ; et comæ capitis tui sicut purpura regis vincta canalibus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- κεφαλή σου ἐπὶ σὲ ὡς Κάρμηλος, καὶ πλόκιον κεφαλῆς σου ὡς πορφύρα, βασιλεὺς δεδεμένος ἐν παραδρομαῖς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Canticles 7:6
- רֹאשֵׁ֤ךְ עָלַ֨יִךְ֙ כַּכַּרְמֶ֔ל וְדַלַּ֥ת רֹאשֵׁ֖ךְ כָּאַרְגָּמָ֑ן מֶ֖לֶךְ אָס֥וּר בָּרְהָטִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Carmel. Shaded with trees. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "purple," which colour was sometimes given to the hair. (Propertius ii. 18.)
Channels. Of the dyers. Hebrew, "to beams." (Calmet)
Protestants, "the king is held in the galleries" to view thee. (Haydock)
Christ was all charity, and the faithful are twice dyed, with the love of God, and of their neighbour. (Menochius)
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.