Song 4:5. "Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies." Like two young roes, i.e. fair, loving, and pleasant. See Proverbs 5:19. Roes which feed among the lilies, not in a wilderness, but in a good pasture, or a pleasant garden, fair and flourishing. And by their being the white unspotted lilies for their nourishment, may also represent her chastity and purity, that her breasts are not defiled by an impure love. By the church's breasts are meant means of grace; see Song of Solomon 8:1; Song of Solomon 8:8; Isaiah 66:11; 1 Peter 2:2. These two breasts may signify the same with the two olive-trees, with the golden pipes emptying the golden oil out of themselves, and the two anointed ones, Zechariah 4:3; Zechariah 4:11-14. and the two witnesses in Revelation, the two testaments, and two sacraments; another thing meant is love, the two breasts are love to God and love to men.

Song 4:8

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