Song of songs; or, sacred idyls / translated from the original Hebrew, with notes critical and explanatory by John Mason Good.

  • Old Testament [Bible].
Date:
1803
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Credit: Song of songs; or, sacred idyls / translated from the original Hebrew, with notes critical and explanatory by John Mason Good. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ntl commentators, who prefer this reading, in endeavouring to prove that the hair most esteemed among the Greeks was tinged of this hue, either entirely or intermixed with black:— in the language of a celebrated critic, introrsus quidem nigras, ad extremum vero rulilantes seu cum horido 'rynas conchue colore certantes. Galist. apud Cleric.: “ Black towards the roots, but of a deep auburn, or colored with the Tyrian murex, towards the extremities:” wliilo Micha^hs suspects that the word refers rather tp the beautifiil spiral form of the conch itself than to the color which was obtained from it; and conceives that the tresses of the royal bride were braided into this elegant figure. Of these difi'ercnt opinioits the last appears to me rather an ingenious conceit than a pro- bable conjecture: and, aslhave already observed Idyl VII. (“), that whatever may have been the fact with respect to the Greeks, which is nevertheless still doubtful, the favorite color of the hair in the time of Soloman, as well as in later periods, among the most polished oriental nations, was not purple, but pure jetty black, 1 have inclined to the first ipterpretation. (•*) Arrest the monarch, and his heart enslave.'] ‘The king is held captive in their flowing ringlets.’ In the original as follows: ■ D'':2nQ ‘]'?o which in the Bible version is rendered “ the king is held in the galleries',” and by Dr. Percy, “Lol the king is detained in the antechamber: ” while Mr. Green, not knowing what to make of the passage, has unjustifiably omitted it altogether. It js elegantly and poetically rendered byDuport: “ The panting