Plants. The various orders of clergy and laity. --- Cyprus, (chap. i. 13.; Calmet) whence a healing oil is extracted. (Theodoret) --- Protestants, "camphire." (Haydock) --- Spikenard is twice mentioned, as it may be well mixed with cyprus and saffron. (Menochius)
Verse 13. _THY PLANTS_ ARE _AN ORCHARD OF POMEGRANATES_] This seems to refer to the _fecundity_ of the bride or Jewish queen; to the former it would be a _prediction_; to the latter, a _statement_ of...
The loveliness and purity of the bride are now set forth under the image of a paradise or garden fast barred against intruders, filled with rarest plants of excellent fragrance, and watered by abundan...
CHAPTER 4 The King, the Bridegroom speaks of her, who is “perfect through His comeliness put upon thee” Ezekiel 16:14. He tells out all she is in His sight and loving estimation. He has called her fro...
SONG OF SOLOMON 4:13 TO SONG OF SOLOMON 5:1. THE BRIDE AS A GARDEN. The charms of the bride are now described under the figure of the fruits of the garden. Song of Solomon 4:16
AN ORCHARD. a paradise. See note on Ecclesiastes 2:5. CAMPHIRE. henna, or cypress....
Song of Solomon 4:8 Chap. Song of Solomon 5:1. A true Lover's Pleading With Song of Solomon 4:8 a new song, representing another scene, begins. In it the peasant lover of the Shulammite comes to b
These verses are a further comparison of the bride in her beauty to a garden in its splendour of colour and its fertility, but a garden shut or closed to all but its lawful owner. The reference is to...
_Thy plants_are _an orchard_ Better, _Thy shoots make an orchard_. These shoots denote all the bride's charms. _Orchard_is in Heb. _pardçs_, which is merely a grander word for _gan_, and is originally...
THY PLANTS ARE AN ORCHARD OF POMEGRANATES— _Thy predications are a paradise of pomegranates, with delicious fruits, cypress, and spikenard._ The bridegroom, having in a former sentence called the brid...
TEXT 4:8 to Song of Solomon 5:1 _SECOND MEETING (Jerusalem_); Prolepsis, Song of Solomon 4:8 to Song of Solomon 5:1 (Chronologically coming between...
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, ORCHARD - Hebrew ( Pardeec (H6508)), a paradise - i:e., a pleasure-ground and orchard. POMEGRANATES - n...
DESCRIPTION OF HER CHARMS. HER INVITATION 1-7. This short poem belongs to the class which the Arabs call wasf, in which the bride's charms are described: they are sung while she is being dressed, or...
Her charms are like the young plants in an orchard of pomegranates, protected from the depredations of wild beasts....
A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE SONG OF SONGS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE MAN V1 My *dear, you are so beautiful! Oh, you are beautiful!...
In fact, the woman did not come from Lebanon. So Solomon uses another description. Solomon had great knowledge about plants (1 Kings 4:33). He knew about plants with beautiful smells from many countri...
THY PLANTS. — Some have thought the offspring of the marriage intended here; but the poet is plainly, by a new adaptation of the language of flowers, describing the charms of the person of his beloved...
שְׁלָחַ֨יִךְ֙ פַּרְדֵּ֣ס רִמֹּונִ֔ים עִ֖ם פְּרִ֣י מְגָדִ֑ים...
TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of So
III. The Actual Betrothal (Song of Solomon 3:6; Song of Solomon 4:1) 1. The Singer Song of Solomon 3:6). The Coming of Solomon. 2. Solomon...
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, (14) Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all t...
And now, chapter 4, He declares all that she is in His sight, although she has been in the lion's den. From thence He calls her, all fair and without spot in His eyes; His heart expressing His delight...
THY PLANTS [ARE] AN ORCHARD OF POMEGRANATES,.... These plants are the members of the church, true converts, believers in Christ; pleasant plants, plants of renown, planted in the church by Christ's he...
Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Ver. 13. _Thy plants are as an orchard of pomegranates._] By plants are to be understood either particular...
_Thy plants are an orchard_ Believers, which are planted in thee, are like the plants or fruits of an orchard, which are pleasant to the eye, and delicious to the taste or smell, whereby he signifies...
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, all her acts being charming and excellent; CAMPHIRE, or cyprus flowers, WITH SPIKENARD, from which precious perfume was made,...
THE RAVISHING LOVE OF THE CHURCH...
CAMPHIRE: Or, Cypress...
8-15 Observe the gracious call Christ gives to the church. It is, 1. A precept; so this is Christ's call to his church to come off from the world. These hills seem pleasant, but there are in them lio...
THY PLANTS, the plants of thy garden, believers which are planted in thee, ARE AN ORCHARD; are like the plants or fruits of an orchard, which are pleasant to the eye, and delicious to the taste or sme...
Song of Solomon 4:13 plants H7973 orchard H6508 pomegranates H7416 pleasant H4022 fruits H6529 henna H3724 spikenard H5373...
The BRIDEGROOM now delights in the fact that his bride is his, and his alone. _ “A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Your shoots are an orchard of pomegrana...
This is a chapter which is, perhaps, more adapted for private meditation than for rending in public. Nevertheless, as this is a communion season, and I trust that the most of us are partakers of the l...
CONTENTS: The Bridegroom commends the beauty of the Bride and delights in her affection. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: Whatever others think of the Bride of Christ, she is...
Song of Solomon 4:8. _Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse._ This endearing appellative occurs here for the first time. This summerhouse of Solomon was built in the forest of Lebanon, and was intended...
_Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees Of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the c...
NOTES Song of Solomon 4:9. _Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse: thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck_. ‘Thou hast ravished my heart’ (לִבַּבְתּ...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 4:1 BEHOLD, THOU ART FAIR, MY LOVE; BEHOLD, THOU ART FAIR; THINE EYES ARE AS DOVES BEHIND THY VEIL; THINE HAIR IS AS A FLOCK OF GOATS, THAT LIE ALONG THE SIDE OF MOUNT GILE...
And now the bridegroom speaks. Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth...
Ecclesiastes 2:5; Isaiah 60:21; Isaiah 61:11; John 12:3; John 15:1;...
Plants — Believers, which are planted in thee, are like the plants or fruits of an orchard, which are pleasant to the eye, and delicious to the taste or smell, whereby he signifies the variety and exc...