Holy Scripture
Song of Solomon 5:9
A church father on this verse
“How is your beloved better than another beloved, etc. It is open for a faithful brother to say to another faithful brother: I beseech you, because I find that you are fervent in the love of the Redeemer, also speak to me of Him, confirm me with a salutary exhortation, so that the same love in my heart may grow by His…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, That thou hast so charged us?
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In context
7The watchmen that go their rounds in the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
8I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the powers and the virtues of the field: If ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.
— Song of Solomon 5:9 —
10My kinsman is white and ruddy, Chosen out from myriads.
11His head is as very fine gold, His locks are flowing, black as a raven.