A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
AD 550
The divine and conceptual Scriptures are compared with dew, with water, with milk, with wine, and with honey, for they have the power like water to produce life, like milk to give growth, like wine to revive, like honey both to purify and preserve.