Song of Solomon 6:6 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 6:6 Meaning Your Teeth Are Like a Flock
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, which have come up from the washing, of which every one has twins; not one is bereaved among them.
What does Song of Solomon 6:6 mean?
The teeth that grind and break down are the powers of discernment in a person, the faculty that takes in experience and breaks it into what can be absorbed. Likened to a flock of sheep come up from the washing, these powers are cleansed and made pure, each one whole and none missing.
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The teeth that grind and break down are the powers of discernment in a person, the faculty that takes in experience and breaks it into what can be absorbed. Likened to a flock of sheep come up from the washing, these powers are cleansed and made pure, each one whole and none missing. That every one bears twins means each act of true discernment brings forth a matched pair, the recognition and its fruit together, so nothing understood remains empty. Not one is barren: every clean judgment yields something living, no faculty of the awakened mind runs dry. This is the inner power of taking in and dividing rightly, purified until each stroke of understanding produces its own increase.
Teeth: the powers of discernment and mental digestion, the faculty that breaks experience down into what a person can absorb. Sheep from the washing: those discerning powers cleansed and made whole, the pure white faculties of the awakened mind, complete and none lacking. Twins: the paired fruit of each true act of discernment, the recognition and its living result brought forth together.
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Live Song of Solomon 6:6 today
- Before you forward or repost something that stirred you up, take two minutes to check whether it is actually true. Let one clean judgment save you from spreading a mess.
- When someone criticizes you, separate the useful grain from the sting before you respond. Take in what is true, let the rest fall away, and tell them the part you are keeping.
- In the next tense decision at work, say out loud what you think is really happening and what you will do about it. Do not let the insight stop at seeing. Let it produce its one next step.
What have you understood clearly for months now that has not yet turned into a single action?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · the Eightfold Path
Clear seeing is a trained skill, not a mood. A mind that can tell the true from the false in what comes at it bears fruit in every choice that follows.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Events arrive bare. Your judgment of them is the part you add, so clean up the judgment and the whole life that grows from it changes.
Judaism · Pirkei Avot
Learning that does not turn into action is a seed left in the sack. Understanding is finished only when it has produced its deed.
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