A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
“A garden enclosed” [is virginity] because it is shut in on all sides by the wall of chastity. “A fountain sealed up” is virginity, for it is the fount and wellspring of modesty that keeps the seal of purity inviolate, in whose source there may shine the image of God, since the pureness of simplicity coincides with the chastity of the body.
