Shir Hashirim 4

8 Come with me from Lebanon [the Levanon], my spouse [kallah (bride)], with me from Lebanon: look from the top [come down from the heights] of Amanah, from the top of Shenir and Hermon [Senir and Chermon], from the lions' [arayot] dens, from the mountains of the leopards [hills of the nemerim].

Taking up their position upon that commanding border, the Sons of Zion may view the landscape of a goodly and glorious land, fragrant of rich odours, and flowing with milk and honey, outstretching eastward in all the length of Euphrates to the East Sea.

This is its border on the east. From the junction of the Euphrates with the Persian Gulf in lat. 30 deg., the frontier is drawn

"from Tamar to Meribah of Kadesh, to the river towards the Great (or Mediterranean) Sea."

This is the south border of Paradise; a line of over a thousand miles abutting upon the Nile, and thence to the sea; and affording free access to the Red Sea by the Elanitic Gulf. The boundary on the west

"shall be the Great Sea from the border (south) till a man come over against (the entering in to) Hamath."

Thus we have an ample area; containing by estimation three hundred thousand square miles, for the length and "breadth of Immanuel's land," extending, as covenanted to Abraham and his Seed,

 "from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, for a possession in the Olahm" (Gen. 15:18).

Such is the territorial paradise or kingdom of the Deity; which all the prophets testify shall be inhabited by the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and their nobles, all of them Priests and Kings with Messiah pre-eminent in all things over all.

Eureka 2.1.7.

12 A garden [gan] inclosed [locked] is my sister, my spouse [kallah]; a spring shut up [enclosed], a fountain [ma'ayan] sealed.

The literal of this exhibits a pardais as a very beautiful enclosure, and illustrates the form of garden our first parents were placed in at the beginning...The literal of this exhibits a pardais as a very beautiful enclosure, and illustrates the form of garden our first parents were placed in at the beginning.

Eureka 3.2.7.

Paradise is a Persian word adopted into the Greek, and expressed in Hebrew by parades or pardes. It signifies a park, a forest, or preserve; a garden of trees of various kinds, a delightful grove, &c. It is found in these texts: --

"I made me gardens (paradises) and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits" (Eccles. 2:5); and, "a garden enclosed (a paradise) is my sister spouse, &c.; thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, &c." (Cant. 4:12-13).

The latter text is part of a description of Solomon's vineyard, representative of that part of Eden over which he reigned; and metaphorical of its beauty, fertility, and glory, when the Heir of the vineyard, the "greater than Solomon," shall come to Zion, and "marry the land" of Eden, as defined in the everlasting covenant made with Abraham (Gen. 15:18). For so it is written,

"thy land, O Zion, shall no more be termed desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, (i.e., my beloved is in her), and thy land Beulah, (ie., married): for Yahweh delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy Elohim rejoice over thee" (Isaiah 62:4-5).

When the marriage, or union, takes place between the sons of Zion, and their King, with the Land of Promise in Eden, it will again become the garden of the Lord, or Paradise, which His own right hand hath planted. For

"Yahweh shall comfort Zion: He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody " (Isaiah 51:3).

Elpis Israel 1.2.

13 Thy plants are an orchard [pardeis (park, paradise)] of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits [p'ri]; camphire [henna], with spikenard,

In Canticles, Solomon, who had much to do with lily work and pomegranates, and fragant and choice woods in the building of the temple, makes the Bridegroom term the Bride "the Lily;" and speaking of herself, she says,

 "I am his, feeding among lilies" and, "a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley." 

And in another part of this Song of Songs, the bridegroom says of the saints forming collectively the Bride,

"A garden enclosed is my sister spouse; a spring locked up, a fountain sealed. Thy shoots are plants of Paradise, pomegranates with delicious fruits."

Moses styles Palestine "a land of pomegranates," so that they came to be used as a similitude for those who shall inherit the land. They therefore constituted the hem of the typical robe of Aaron, being of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and alternating with golden bells. These plants of Paradise typifying the two classes of saints from Israel and the Gentiles, are concretely the "strong ones, by whom HE, Yahweh, will establish" the kingdom of David.

Eureka 3.2.7.

14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense [kol atzei levonah (all kinds of incense trees)]; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief [finest] spices:

...a soul-inspiring symbol of the out-flowing, fragrant, genial, and happifying, influences of the New Jerusalem Paradise in the healing principles brought to bear upon the nations in its administration of the affairs of the subjected world.

The leaves of a tree are the lungs, or breathing organs, of the tree or plant. The Wood of life, vitalized by the living water of the Spirit, symbolizing the incorruptible and immortal, and most holy hosts of the new heavens, in the aggregate; the Leaves of the Wood, like the Eyes of the Four Living Ones, are the individual saints in particular; in other words, each particular leaf is a saint-constituent of the Divine institution, through which the Spirit breathes when and where He pleases.

When the earnest of the spirit was shed forth, the Spirit breathed upon the 3000 Pentecostians through the apostles, the leaf-bearing and fruitbearing branches of the true vine. The report of the wonderful works of the Deity they heard in their own tongues (Acts 2:8,11), was the breathing of the Spirit, which by the doctrine enumerated healed them of their ignorance and moral degradation.

"He breathes where he pleases".

He breathed in Jerusalem of old; he will breathe thence anew; not upon a few thousand Jews only, and through twelve men of Israel; but through "a great multitude which no man can number," upon all the millennial nations of the earth; so that as a consequence,

"the knowledge of the glory of YAHWEH shall fill the earth, as the waters cover the sea".

Eureka 22.3.