Song of Solomon 4:2 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 4:2 Meaning Your Teeth Are Like a Newly Shorn
Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
What does Song of Solomon 4:2 mean?
The teeth here are the ordered powers of discernment in a person, the faculties that break down and take in what feeds the inner life. Likened to a flock newly shorn and risen from the washing, they are cleansed and made even, every one purified and none stained.
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The teeth here are the ordered powers of discernment in a person, the faculties that break down and take in what feeds the inner life. Likened to a flock newly shorn and risen from the washing, they are cleansed and made even, every one purified and none stained. Each bears twins, so each faculty is doubly fruitful, producing in balanced pairs; and none is barren, meaning no power of the mind is left empty or useless.
This is discernment brought to full and clean perfection: every grinding, sorting faculty of the self washed white, matched to its fellow, and each one bearing fruit. Nothing in the mind is wasted and nothing is unclean.
Teeth: the ordered faculties of discernment that break down and take in what nourishes the inner life Sheep: the gentle purified thoughts of a person, a flock cleansed and made even Washing: the cleansing of the inner faculties, the purification that leaves the mind white and clean Twins: the balanced double-fruit of each faculty, every power of the mind producing in matched pairs
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Live Song of Solomon 4:2 today
- Go through your feeds or inbox today and cut two things that only take from you. Keeping the useful and dropping the rest is a skill, not a mood.
- When someone tells you something hard about yourself, keep the one true part and let the rest go. You can do that silently, in the moment.
- In a meeting where everything sounds urgent, pick out the one decision that actually matters and say it out loud. Clear sorting helps everyone in the room.
What have I been swallowing lately without ever asking whether it feeds me?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Chuang Tzu
The skilled butcher's blade never dulls, because he cuts along the natural joints rather than hacking through bone. Clean discernment wears nothing out.
Buddhism
Right understanding sorts what feeds the life from what merely fills it. Take in only what nourishes, and nothing in you goes to waste.
Judaism · Pirkei Avot
Who is wise? The one who learns from everyone. Nothing that crosses such a person's path is useless.
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