7aLike a piece of pomegranate Are your temples behind your veil.
8 There are sixty queens And eighty concubines, And avirgins without number.
9 My dove, my aperfect one, Is the only one, The only one of her mother, The favorite of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her And called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, And they praised her.
10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, aAwesome as anarmy with banners?
The Shulamite
11 I went down to the garden of nuts To see the verdure of the valley, aTo see whether the vine had budded And the pomegranates had bloomed.
12 Before I was even aware, My soul had made me As the chariots of1 my noble people.
Hollow professors, like half wives, have no part in the one bride.
only one of her mother—namely, "Jerusalem above" (Galatians 4:26). The "little sister" (Song of Solomon 8:8) is not inconsistent with her being "the only one"; for that sister is one with herself (John 10:16).
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