His eyes are like doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
AD 386
Perhaps, as some say, it was to reveal an image that he came down in the likeness of a pure, innocent, simple dove, working with prayers for the sons he begot and for the forgiveness of sins; just as in a veiled manner it was foretold that the beauty of Christ’s eyes would be manifested in this way.
