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branches - shoots, or suckers.
beauty ... as the olive - which never loses its verdure. One plant is not enough to express the graces of God’s elect people. The lily depicts its lovely growth; but as it wants duration and firmness, the deeply rooted cedars of Lebanon are added; these, however, are fruitless, therefore the fruitful, peace-bearing, fragrant, ever green olive is added.
smell as Lebanon - which exhaled from it the fragrance of odoriferous trees and flowers. So Israel’s name shall be in good savor with all (Gen 27:27; Son 4:11).