Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Tes lèvres sont comme un fil cramoisi, Et ta bouche est charmante; Ta joue est comme une moitié de grenade, Derrière ton voile.
KJV
Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Eucherius of Lyon
Book of Spiritual Intelligence Formulas
noted in the Song of Songs: "Your branches are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruit of apples" (Song of Songs 4:3). Alternatively, apples are seen as the fruits of good deeds with a pleasant fragrance, symbolizing the grace of a good reputation and the fruits of good charact…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
est passio Christi, ut in Cantico: «Sicut fragmen mali punici, ita genae tuae [Note: [Col. 0921] 27 Cant. IV, 3.] ,» quod Christi passionem sancti ejus martyres imitantur. Per fragmen secretiora legis, ut in Evangelio: «Colligite quae superaverunt fragmenta [Note: [Col. 0921]…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
ae, boni operatores, ut in Cantico: «Sicut fragmen mali punici, ita genae tuae [Note: [Col. 0943] 18 Cant. IV, 3.] ,» quod sanctae Ecclesiae operarii in unitate fidei diversi ad profectum proximorum in publico existunt. Genarum nomine pudibundi praelati figurantur, in quorum…
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