Song of Solomon 4:11

Thy lips—drop as the honey-comb— Expressing her sweet, her divine, words; a metaphor common with the Greek as well as the Oriental writers. See Theocritus's 20th Idyllium.

The smell of thy garments— In the East, where perfumes are exceedingly common, the garments on nuptial occasions were remarkably perfumed. See Psalms 45 which uses the same figure, and is, like to this, a beautiful epithalamium on the marriage of Christ and his church. Lebanon abounded with various odoriferous trees, from which the finest gums were extracted, particularly frankincense; whence some derive the name of Lebanon from לבונה lebonah, frankincense. See Chambers's Dictionary, and the New Translation.