I have put off my [a]coat, how shall I defile [put] it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

My well-beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and [b]mine heart was affectioned toward him.

I rose up to open to my well-beloved, and mine hands did drop down myrrh, and my [c]fingers pure myrrh upon the handles of the bar.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:3 The spouse confesseth her nakedness, and that of herself she hath nothing, or seeing that she is once made clean, she promiseth not to defile herself again.
  2. Song of Solomon 5:4 Hebrew, my bowels were moved towards him.
  3. Song of Solomon 5:5 The spouse which should be anointed of Christ, shall not find him if she think to anoint him with her good works.

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