He himself said, “I am the flower of the plain, a lily of the valley.” The flower, when cut, keeps its odor, and when bruised increases it, nor if torn off does it lose it. So, too, the Lord Jesus, on the gibbet of the cross, neither failed when bruised nor fainted when torn. And when he was cut by that piercing of the spear, being made more beautiful by the color of the outpoured blood, he, as it were, grew comely again, not able in himself to die, and breathing forth upon the dead the gift of eternal life.

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