John Gill's Exposition on Song of Solomon 6:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks.] The same descriptions are given in (<220403>Song of Solomon 4:3); (see Gill on “<220403>Song of Solomon 4:3”); and these are repeated, to show the reality of the church’s beauty, and for the sake of confirmation; and that it still continued the same, notwithstanding her failings and infirmities; and that Christ had the same esteem of her, and love to her, he ever had. That part of the description, respecting the church’s lips and speech, in (<220403>Song of Solomon 4:3); is here omitted, though added at the end of (<220606>Song of Solomon 6:6); by the Septuagint; but is not in the Hebrew copies, nor taken notice of in the Targum; yea, the Masorah, on (<220402>Song of Solomon 4:2), remarks some words as only used in that place, and therefore could not be repeated here in the copies then in use.

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