| John Young (M.A.) - 1848 - 150 pages
...of in the Canticles, iv. 14, as being sweet as " spikenard and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, and all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices." Among which chief spices, " calamus" maintains a place. Sweet-scented CALAMUS, offspring of Ind, Child,... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1848 - 602 pages
...pomegranates, With pleasant fruits, camphire, and spikenard, Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon. VVith all trees of frankincense ; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices ; A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters. And streams from Lebanon." I have not now leisure... | |
| Thomas Norton Harper - 1849 - 168 pages
...garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse", says Christ of His body, the Church. " Thy plants are .... spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with...frankincense, myrrh, and aloes, with all the chief spices. A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon." " Awake, O north wind, and... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1849 - 576 pages
...With pleasant fruits, cnmphire, and spikenard, Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, ,.• I With all trees of frankincense ; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices; , A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon." I have not now leisure... | |
| Adelaide Leaper NEWTON - 1850 - 256 pages
...one kind of fruit only, but many ; " pomegranates with pleasant fruits," namely — Ver. 13, 14. " Camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ;...frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices." See what the Lord finds, and expects to find, in his Church ! What diversity of plants ! and what choice... | |
| Catherine Mary M'Nab - 1850 - 136 pages
...shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits ; camphiro with spikenard ; spikenard and saffron ; calamus and...frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, 0 north wind ; and... | |
| 1850 - 538 pages
...been shot by the man, it would probably have been drowned by the no less merciless tide." SAFFIION. "Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with...frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices." — CANTICLES, iv. 14. THIS is the only passage in the sacred volume in which the name of this plant... | |
| 1850 - 436 pages
...xlv., 8.) "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with cinnamon, and Aloes (ahalim)." (Prov. vii., 17.) " Spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and Aloes (ahaloth), with all the chief spices." (Cant, iv., 15.) Lign Aloes occurs but once in the English version... | |
| 1851 - 514 pages
...Lebanon. A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits ;...frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices; a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, 0 north wind, and... | |
| John Owen - 1851 - 476 pages
...12-14, "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits ;...trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices." Whatever is sweet and delicious for taste, whatever savoury and odoriferous, whatever... | |
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