“But this beauty of the "cheeks," that is of modesty and chastity, is compared to "turtledoves." They say that the nature of turtledoves is of such a sort that neither the male woos more than one female nor the female puts up with more than one male, so that if it should happen that one is cut off and the other survive…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 2:7
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15Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
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In context
13A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
14My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
— Song of Solomon 1:15 —
16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.