Note 36 — THE PATRIARCHS (continued 8)
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Another once observed to me, that in the Canticles, the Beloved expresses directly to herself the beauties He discerns in her; the betrothed one never does this, but recites His beauties in the ears of others; and further observed, that there was great moral propriety in this, something quite according to the dictate of a delicate affection.