[a]I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor waken my love, until she please.

[b]It is the voice of my well-beloved: behold, he cometh leaping by the mountains, and skipping by the hills.

My well-beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: lo, he [c]standeth behind our wall, looking forth of the windows, showing himself through the [d]grates.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 Christ chargeth them which have to do in the Church as it were by a solemn oath, that they trouble not the quietness thereof.
  2. Song of Solomon 2:8 This is spoken of Christ, who took upon his our nature to come to help his Church.
  3. Song of Solomon 2:9 Forasmuch as his divinity was hid under the cloak of our flesh.
  4. Song of Solomon 2:9 So that we cannot have full knowledge of him in this life.

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