Song of Solomon 1:14
Terraced on the side of the mountains were the vineyards of En-gedi. Oh, they were sweet places! From a shelving of the mountain four hundred feet high waters came down in beautiful baptism on the faces of the leaves; the grapes intoxicate with their own wine; pomegranates with juices bursting from the rind; all fruits, and flowers, and aromatic woods — among the sweetest of these the camphire plant of the text. Its flowers are in clusters like our lilac — graceful, fragrant, symbolical of Jesus. I. I will first show you that this camphire plant of the text was a symbol of Christ, because of ITS FRAGRANCE. If I had a branch of it, and should wave it in your midst, it would fill all the house with the redolence. The camphor, as we have it, is offensive to some; but the camphire plant of the text had a fragrance gracious to all. The name of Caesar means power; the name of Herod means cruelty; the name of Alexander means conquest; the name of Demosthenes means eloquence; the name ...