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Song of Songs 4:8

Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Thou. Hebrew, "look from. " Libanus. So Jerusalem is called, Zacharias xi. 3. (Ribera) (Menochius) Amana. Septuagint, "faith. "By it and charity, we must do good. (St. Augustine, Psalm lxvii.) Amanus separates Cilicia from Syria. Sanir is the name given by the Phenicians to Hermon, (Eusebius) beyond the Jordan, 1 Paralipomenon v. 23. Leopards. It is not fit for women to hunt such beasts. Ovid (Met. x. 10.) thus speaks of Venus: Nuda genu, vestemque ritu succincta Dianæ The Church leaves Jerusalem to preach the gospel without fear. (Menochius)

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