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Song of Songs 6:1

Where has your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? where has your beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with you.
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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017
this is a picture of those with little faith inquiring from God's people for direction to the Lord of salvation.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Lilies. The church teaches, that God is delighted with the pious desires and works of the faithful. (Worthington) She answers the question which had been put to her. (Calmet) God associates lilies, or the perfect, to his angels. He "feeds his flock "and "is fed "on works of piety, as Hebrew and Septuagint imply both. (Menochius)

Richard Challoner

AD 1781
My beloved is gone down into his garden: Christ, pleased with the good works of his holy and devout servants labouring in his garden, is always present with them: but the words is gone down, are to be understood, that after trying his Church by permitting persecution, he comes to her assistance and she rejoices at his coming.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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