Verse 12. _A GARDEN ENCLOSED - A SPRING SHUT UP, A FOUNTAIN_ _SEALED._] Different expressions to point out the _fidelity_ of the bride, or of the Jewish queen. See the _outlines_. She is _unsullied_,...
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...
THE RESISTLESS CHARM OF THE BEAUTIFUL BRIDE. In the Oriental manner this enchantment is expressed in the sensuous terms of wine, honey, and delicious odours. SISTER is found in old Egyptian love-songs...
A GARDEN. Note the _Alternation_ in verses: Song of Solomon 4:12:. | 12-. Garden.. | -12. Spring. _c_. 13, 14. Garden fruits. _d_. 15. Fountain. INCLOSED. closed: bolted and barred. SHUT UP. Same wo...
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...
_a spring shut up_ The word rendered _spring_is _gal_, not found elsewhere in this sense. Another derivative from the same root is used in Joshua 15:19 and Judges 1:15 in a similar sense. Some MSS., t...
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
A GARDEN INCLOSED, &C.— See the note on Song of Solomon 4:8....
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...
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. A GARDEN ENCLOSED. Here she is distinct from the garden (), yet identified with it (), as being one with Him in His s...
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...
She is as a garden barred (RM) to...
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...
A GARDEN INCLOSED. — Comp. with this passage Song of Solomon 4:12; Proverbs 5:15; Proverbs 5:21. The closed or walled garden and the sealed fountain appear to have been established metaphors for the p...
גַּ֥ן ׀ נָע֖וּל אֲחֹתִ֣י כַלָּ֑ה גַּ֥ל נָע֖וּל...
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...
_Up. She is perfectly chaste, Proverbs v. 14. The Church excludes from her society all unbelievers and schismatics. The wicked serve to exercise the virtuous. Her pastors explain the Scriptures, the f...
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Jesus is still prosecuting the subject in the commendation of his love. And here he compares her, by two or three very s...
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...
A GARDEN ENCLOSED [IS] MY SISTER, [MY] SPOUSE,.... At a little distance from Bethlehem are pools of water, and below these runs a narrow rocky valley, enclosed on both sides with high mountains which...
A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Ver. 12. _A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse._] Fair and sweet he had before affirmed her; now, because “ _...
_A garden_ For order and beauty, for pleasant walks, and flowers, and fruits; _enclosed_ Defended by the care of my providence: and reserved for my proper use. _A spring shut up_ To preserve it from...
THE RAVISHING LOVE OF THE CHURCH...
A garden enclosed is My sister, My spouse, one locked against intruders, open only to the owner; A SPRING SHUT UP, A FOUNTAIN SEALED, the meaning being that the place where the sparkling water wells f...
ENCLOSED: _ Heb._ barred...
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...
A GARDEN, for order and beauty, for pleasant walks, and flowers, and fruits. ENCLOSED; either, 1. Defended by the care of my providence; or, 2. Reserved for my proper use. She will not admit of othe...
Song of Solomon 4:12 garden H1588 enclosed H5274 (H8803) sister H269 spouse H3618 spring H1530 up H5274 ...
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...
_A garden inclosed is My sister, My spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed._ THE LORD’S OWN VIEW OF HIS CHURCH AND PEOPLE I. The nearness of kin of the Church to Christ, and Christ to the Church...
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...
1 Corinthians 6:13; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Corinthians 7:34;...
A garden — For order and beauty, for pleasant walks, and flowers, and fruits. Inclosed — Defended by the care of my providence: and reserved for my proper use. Shut up — To preserve it from all pollut...