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Song of Solomon 8:3

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. That is, when she should have the presence of Christ in her mother's house. Or the words are a petition that so it might be, "let his left hand", &c.

; or a declaration of what she did enjoy, "his left hand is under my head", &c. ,See Gill on "So 2:6". Tigurine version, Marckius, some in Michaelis.

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