I adjure you by the gazelles, or by the does of the field, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, and that you not awaken my Love until it pleases.
For the Law having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, appearing according to a year with the same sacrifices, which they offer to the carrying through, they never are able to perfect the ones drawing near.
who serve the pattern of and shadow of heavenly things, even as Moses was divinely warned, being about to complete the tabernacle: For “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern, the one being shown to you in the mountain.” Ex. 25:40
and we have the more established prophetic Word, in which you do well to pay attention, as to a lamp shining in a murky place, until day dawns and the lightbearing One rises in your hearts;