Your head crowns you like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; the king is held captive by your tresses.
All Commentaries on Song of Songs 7:5 Go To Song of Songs 7
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Carmel. Shaded with trees. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "purple "which colour was sometimes given to the hair. (Propertius ii. 18.)
Channels. Of the dyers. Hebrew, "to beams. "(Calmet)
Protestants, "the king is held in the galleries "to view thee. (Haydock)
Christ was all charity, and the faithful are twice dyed, with the love of God, and of their neighbour. (Menochius)
