Holy Scripture
Song of Solomon 6:5
A church father on this verse
“A goat is honored because its thick coat provides an image of beauty for the bride. Another reason for praise is that a goat can pass over rocks with a sure foot, agilely turn on mountain peaks, courageously pass through difficult, rough places, and can go safely on the road of virtue. Some would maintain that this an…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Turn away thine eyes from before me, For they have ravished me: Thy hair is as flocks of goats Which have appeared from Gilead.
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3I am my kinsman’s, and my kinsman is mine, Who feeds among the lilies.
4Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, Beautiful as Jerusalem, Terrible as armies set in array.
— Song of Solomon 6:5 —
6Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, That have gone up from the washing, All of them bearing twins, And there is none barren among them: Thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, And thy speech is comely.
7Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, Being seen without thy veil.