Song of Songs 7:5

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Your head crowns you like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; the king is held captive by your tresses.

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

Carmel: The head is the high point of the body, and well placed, just as Mt. Carmel in the Promised Land, which was a delightful and fruitful place. crowns: the crown of Christ's head, namely, his divinity, from which flow the intellectual and emotional qualities of the spiritual life, first into Christ according to his human nature, and then into all the members of his Church. (Nicholas of Lyra)

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Aquinas Study Bible

AD 2017

Carmel: The head is the high point of the body, and well

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Carmel. Shaded with trees. (Calmet) Hebrew, "purple "which colour was sometimes given to the hair. (Propertius ii. 18.) Channels. Of the dyers. Hebrew, "to beams. "(Calmet) Protestants, "the king is held in the galleries "to view thee. (Haydock) Christ was all charity, and the faithful are twice dyed, with the love of God, and of their neighbour. (Menochius)

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Richard Challoner

AD 1781

Thy head is like Carmel: Christ, the invisible head of his church, is here signified.

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