And the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goes down sweetly, flowing gently over lips and teeth.
All Commentaries on Song of Songs 7:9 Go To Song of Songs 7
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Lips. Septuagint, "sufficient for my lips and teeth. "(Haydock)
The wine in that country was very thick, when kept a long time. It here denotes charity, or the gospel truths, Luke v. 37., and Acts ii. 13. Hebrew, "causing the lips of them who sleep to speak "(Calmet) as the apostles did, in transports of zeal. (Theodoret)
Yet the reading of the Septuagint, Aquila, seems preferable. (Calmet)