THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Notes on Solomon's Canticle of Canticles (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))

4:12 My sister, etc., a garden enclosed: Figuratively the church is enclosed, containing only the faithful. A fountain sealed up. . .That none can drink of its waters, that is, the graces and spiritual benefits of the holy sacraments, but those who are within its walls.

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