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Image from page 408 of “The palm tree” (1864)
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Identifier: palmtree00mood
Title: The palm tree
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Moody, Sophy
Subjects: Palms Trees in the Bible
Publisher: London : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row Edinburgh, and New York
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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^\n cStiituu of tin ^elobetr. 0 princes daughter! . . . how fair, how pleasant art thou!is like to a palm tree.—Cant. vii. 1, 6, 7. This thy statui-9
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Y the inspired Psalmist the pahn tree was chosenas the similitude of the righteous. By hisson, the mighty Solomon, wisest of men—hewho spake of trees, from the cedar tree thatis in Lebanon even unto the hyssop thatspringeth out of the wall—it was chosen alsoas an emblem of his Beloved.* The Songs of Solomon were a hundred andfive, this marriage song alone remaining to us. But theSong of Songs* was not only an earthly love song; thegreat king on whom so large a gift of wisdom was bestowedwrote by inspii-ation: his poem was a prophecy. When the Spirit of the Lord was upon Isaiah, he spake ofJudea as a married land—Beulah;t and again, as hav-ing her Maker for her husband, J the Lord of hosts byname. Jeremiah, too, speaking the words of a merciful God,tells of Israel married to her lord.§ 0 wondrous condescension! The high and lofty One thatinhabiteth eternity deigning, by the use of terms best under-stood by men, to show forth his loving-kindness unto them !The hoasehold names of
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