Holy Scripture
Sirach 24:30
A church father on this verse
“For the soul is a paradise in which Scripture is planted, and it has marvelous aspects of sweetness and beauty. Hence in the Canticle: My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up. Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates. The soul is a garden in which there are sacramental myste…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
30I also came out as a brook from a river, And as a conduit into a garden.
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28The first man knew her not perfectly: No more shall the last find her out.
29For her thoughts are more than the sea, And her counsels profounder than the great deep.
— Sirach 24:30 —
31I said, I will water my best garden, And will water abundantly my garden bed: And, lo, my brook became a river, And my river became a sea.
32I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, And will send forth her light afar off.