John Gill on Song of Solomon 7:3
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. See Gill on Sol 4:5.
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| Word | Hebrew | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| two | שְׁנֵ֥י she.Nei | H8147 | two · cardinal number, both genders dual construct |
| breasts | שָׁדַ֛יִךְ sha.Da.yikh | H7699 | the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging) · noun, common masculine dual construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular |
| two | כִּשְׁנֵ֥י kish.Nei | H8147 | two · preposition + cardinal number, both genders dual construct |
| young | עֳפָרִ֖ים 'o.fa.Rim | H6082 | a fawn (from the dusty color) · noun, common masculine plural absolute |
| roes | צְבִיָּֽה tze.vi.Yah | H6646 | a female gazelle · noun, common feminine singular absolute |
| twins | תָּאֳמֵ֥י to.'o.Mei | H8380 | a twin (in plural only) · noun, common masculine plural construct |
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Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. See Gill on Sol 4:5.
Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat (literally Your belly is like a mound of wheat): The man is either describing the woman’s smoothly rounded abdomen or her pubic mound.
You navel is like a round bowl. Your navel is like a basin of clear water in which they bathe, and it is made of marble, which in Arabic it is called sahar. Because the navel is shaped like a round hole, [Scripture] compares it to a round basin.13Alternatively, Scripture compares its roundness to the shape of the moon. The Targum for ירח is סהרא, in Bereshis 37:9. (Metzudas Dovid and Metzudas Tzion) This praise is not in reference to a woman’s beauty as the above praise, because in the above, her beloved praises her, but here, her friends praise her about her deeds, saying, “you are worthy to join us.” And the allegory is: It refers to the Chamber of Hewn Stone, which is situated in the “nav…
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Two breasts, etc. We have spoken abundantly about this verse above; but now it should be briefly recalled that rightly after the belly of the bride, her breasts are commended, because indeed the holy Church offers milk to her little ones, whom she generates in Christ from the sacrosanct womb of the saving water, from the nourishment of the neophytes, with gentler doctrine, until she gradually instructs them to receive the bread of higher wisdom. Therefore, the breasts of the Church are those who instruct her little ones, that is, those recently reborn in faith: and it is well that they are mentioned as being two, because from two peoples, namely, the Jews and the Gentiles, the saving font which cleanses them and brings them forth by the heavenly mystery, gathers them. They are well compared to the two young fawns of a gazelle, because the true teachers take from the teachings of both Testaments what they preach. It is also fitting that these fawns are said to be twins, because the Testaments themselves are given by the same author, from the one of whom Ecclesiastes says: The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed, given by one shepherd through the counsel of masters (Ecclesiastes XII). Therefore, there are two breasts of the bride, like two twin fawns of a gazelle, because the teachers of the neophytes do not preach their own but speak as from God, before God in Christ; He is the one shepherd, who from two flocks of sheep makes one fold; whose burning desire the bride above cries out: Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you rest at noon. He is the one teacher of the teachers, for he commanded his disciples, who are our teachers, saying: Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you (Matthew XXVIII). Rightly also is the name gazelle assigned to him, for it is a clean animal, noteworthy for its sight and speed, splitting the hoof and chewing the cud, and like all clean quadrupeds, armed with horns. If indeed saints of such nature are apt, because they have a split hoof in the discernment of good and evil, and customarily speak sweetly and as if chew the cud on things they discern are good from evil, who have learned to direct the eye of their heart far off, that is, to contemplate…
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