Song of Solomon 4:13

Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

Ver. 13. Thy plants are as an orchard of pomegranates.] By plants are to be understood either particular churches or several saints. These are those shoots or sprouts a that spread abroad God's paradise - that the word here used, and nowhere else in Scripture, save Ecc 2:5 Neh 2:8 so called for the curious variety and excellence of all sorts of precious and pleasant trees there growing; some for profit, as pomegranates, which are known to be healthful and preservative, some for pleasure; and these again were either more common and copious in Jewry, as camphires and spikenards - plurals both in the original, for the plenty of them in those parts - or more rare and costly, as those mentioned in the next verse.

a Emissiones, propagines.