On the little foxes
The little foxes…spoil the vine. Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon) 2:15 It's always the tiniest things that really throw something off. Because this innermost part shipped with the tiniest little clip broken off, now I have to process a return and wait for a new one, thus delaying things even further. There is a spiritual lesson here as well on both the personal and ecclesiastic levels. Catch the little foxes — the little foxes that spoil the vine — when the vineyard is in bloom, when the grapes are but tender. my gloss of various translations of Song of Songs 2:15 In short, the little foxes in the personal thoughts that we allow to run through our mental vineyard. Catch them while they are young. There's no such thing as it's just a little _____ . See also: Ps. 137:9 On the ecclesiastical level, the Apostolic Constitutions say: [Those] who spoil the church of God, as the little foxes do the vineyard , we exhor...