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Song of Solomon 5:10
My Beloved is white and ruddy, fair and with the color of health, the chiefest among ten thousand, distinguished above a myriad, an unequaled Champion.
My Beloved is white and ruddy, fair and with the color of health, the chiefest among ten thousand, distinguished above a myriad, an unequaled Champion.
Verse 10. _MY BELOVED_ IS _WHITE AND RUDDY_] _Red_ and _white_, properly mixed, are essential to a _fine complexion_; and this is what is intimated: he has the _finest complexion among ten thousand_ _...
MY BELOVED IS WHITE AND RUDDY - Compare 1 Samuel 16:12; Daniel 7:9. The complexion most admired in youth. Jewish interpreters remark that he who is elsewhere called “the Ancient of Days” is here descr...
CHAPTER 5 The Bridegroom answers the invitation extended to Him when the bride had said, “Let my Beloved come into His (not her) garden.” He says, “I am come into My garden, My sister, My spouse.” She...
SONG OF SOLOMON 5:8 TO SONG OF SOLOMON 6:3. DESCRIPTIVE POEM (_Wasf) :_ THE STRENGTH AND BEAUTY OF THE BRIDEGROOM. On this view, Song of Solomon 5:8 f. is taken as an introduction to t
MY BELOVED. The Shulamite describes him further to them. See Structure (above). THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND. distinguished or conspicuous above thousands. Hebrew "signalized as by. banner"....
Song of Solomon 5:2 to Song of Solomon 6:3. A Dream On the hypothesis we have adopted, a night must be supposed to intervene between Song of Solomon 5:1. After the interview with the king and that
_white_ The Heb. _tsach_is an adj. derived from _tsâchach_, -to shine" or -glow," -to be brightly white." Here, and in Lamentations 4:7, where the word is used of the colour of the skin, it means a cl...
MY BELOVED IS WHITE AND RUDDY— _Fair and bright._ Bochart. _The chiefest among ten thousand._ Pitts, in his account of his return from Mecca, thus describes those _lights_ by which they travel in the...
TEXT 5:8-16 _Adjuration to Court Ladies, Song of Solomon 5:8_ (third) _Court Ladies,_ Challenge, Song of Solomon 5:9 (ironical) _Shulammite,_ Description of her beloved,...
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. MY BELOVED IS WHITE AND RUDDY. The believer is 'ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is...
5:10 chiefest (b-8) Strictly, 'lifted up as a banner.'...
A DREAM. HIS BEAUTY AND HERS 2-7. Another dream of hers, with a painful ending. The accumulation (Song of Solomon 5:2) of names of endearment reminds us of the frequent repetition, by a Palestinian b...
The smell of her garments is like the fresh and healthy odour of the cedars, or, as we in England should say, of the pinewoods: cp. Genesis 27:27; Psalms 45:8....
A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE SONG OF SONGS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 5 THE MAN V1 I have come into my garden, my special young woman, my bride. I have gathered my *myrrh and *spice....
CHIEFEST. — Marg., _a standard bearer;_ Heb. _dagûl,_ participle of a word occurring in Psalms 20:5, where the Authorised Version gives “we will set up our banners.”...
דֹּודִ֥י צַח֙ וְ אָדֹ֔ום דָּג֖וּל מֵ רְבָבָֽה
MYSTICAL INTERPRETATIONS THUS far we have been considering the bare, literal sense of the text. It cannot be denied that, if only to lead up to the metaphorical significance of the words employed, tho...
TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of S...
IV. Experiences Following Betrothal (Song of Solomon 5:2; Song of Solomon 6:1; Song of Solomon 7:1) 1. The Bride ...
_Ruddy. Or shining. Et color in niveo corpore purpureus. The divine and human nature, or the conception and sufferings of Christ are thus described. (Calmet) --- The spouse gives this admirable descri...
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. The Church in this verse begins her answer, and had she said no more than what she saith in the commendation of Jesus, this is a final r...
Chapter 5 gives us another experience. Intimacy was formed through the testimony of the Bridegroom's affection. The reassured heart, certain of His love, exhibits its slothfulness. Alas, what hearts a...
MY BELOVED [IS] WHITE AND RUDDY,.... This, and the following verses, contain the church's answer to the question of the daughters; she first gives a general description of her beloved, and then descen...
My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. Ver. 10. _My beloved is white and ruddy, &c._] Love lacks no rhetoric to lay forth the thing beloved in liveliest colours. "White and...
_My beloved is white and ruddy_ The _white_ may denote his pure and spotless innocence, and the _ruddy_ colour, his bloody passion. _His head is as the most fine gold_ It shines like gold, by reason o...
THE CHIEFEST: _ Heb._ a standard bearer...
9-16 Even those who have little acquaintance with Christ, cannot but see amiable beauty in others who bear his image. There are hopes of those who begin to inquire concerning Christ and his perfectio...
WHITE AND RUDDY; which two colours rightly mixed together make a face beautiful. Or the _white_ may note his pure and spotless innocency, and the brightness of his glory and majesty, and the ruddy col...
Song of Solomon 5:10 beloved H1730 white H6703 ruddy H122 Chief H1713 (H8803) thousand H7233 beloved -...
In her continuing dream the YOUNG WIFE gives her response “My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are curly, and black as a raven...
CONTENTS: The distress of the Bride because of the temporary withdrawal of the groom, due to the Bride's neglect. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: The slights which careless...
Song of Solomon 5:9. _What is thy beloved more than another beloved?_ To address this question to Pharaoh's daughter, had been the highest insult. More therefore is intended in this sublime of songs t...
_My Beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand._ CHRIST’S PERFECTION AND PRECEDENCE The spouse in this verse styles her Lord, “my Beloved,” from which it is easy for us to gather tha...
_What is thy Beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women._ THE INCOMPARABLE BRIDEGROOM AND HIS BRIDE I want to address some earnest words to the people of God upon certain practical...
SHULAMITE’S DESCRIPTION OF HER BELOVED Song of Solomon 5:10 SHULAMITE My beloved is white and ruddy, The chief among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, And black a...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 5:1 I AM COME INTO MY GARDEN, MY SISTER, MY BRIDE; I HAVE GATHERED MY MYRRH WITH MY SPICE; I HAVE EATEN MY HONEYCOMB WITH MY HONEY; I HAVE DRUNK MY WINE WITH MY MILK. EAT,...
Chapter 5, the bridegroom replies, I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk:...
Colossians 1:18; Deuteronomy 32:31; Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 7:26;...
White — The white may denote his pure and spotless innocency, and the ruddy colour his bloody passion....