Song of Solomon 7:13
The mandrakes give a smell. In our gates are all fruits: the new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 30:14And Ruben, going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son's mandrakes.
Song of Solomon 4:16Arise, O north wind, and come, O south wind, blow through my garden, and let the aromatical spices thereof flow.
Isaiah 23:18And her merchandise and her hire shall be sanctified to the Lord: they shall not be kept in store, nor laid up: for her merchandise shall be for them that shall dwell before the Lord, that they may eat unto fulness, and be clothed for a continuance.
Matthew 13:52He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.
John 15:8dummy verses inserted by amos
1 Corinthians 2:9But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 7:11-13
Desiring Communion with Christ; The Love of the Church to Christ. 10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. These… Read the whole commentary →