Much water cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, they would greatly contemn it.

[a]We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister when she shall be spoken for?

[b]If she be a wall, we will build upon her a silver palace: and if she be a door, we will keep her in with boards of cedar.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 8:8 The Jewish Church speaketh this of the Church of the Gentiles.
  2. Song of Solomon 8:9 If she be sure and fast, she is meet for the husband to dwell in.

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