Verse Song of Solomon 8:7. _MANY WATERS_] Neither common nor uncommon _adversities_, even of the most _ruinous_ nature, can destroy love when it is _pure_; and _pure love_ is such that nothing can _p...
The bride says this as she clings to his arm and rests her head upon his bosom. Compare John 13:23; John 21:20. This brief dialogue corresponds to the longer one Song of Solomon 4:7-5, on the day of t...
CHAPTER 8 The last chapter of the Song is a review of the whole. There is unquestionably a recapitulation of the entire book. The bride's desires are once more given to be loved and caressed by Him. F...
THE POWER OF LOVE. The verses from Song of Solomon 8:5 to the end of the book are difficult to weave into a connected whole, and perhaps we have here a series of lyrical fragments. It is possible to d...
CANNOT QUENCH: i.e. earthly things cannot destroy that which is divine. A MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
Song of Solomon 8:5-7. The Return in the Might of Love The scene depicted in these verses is the return of the Shulammite with her lover to the village. As they draw near she leans upon him in wearin...
_Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it_ Better, _neither can rivers drown it_. The word translated _drown_may also mean _sweep away_(cp. Isaiah 28:17): but as love has just b...
DISCOURSE: 855 THE CHURCH’S DESIRE OF CHRIST’S LOVE Song of Solomon 8:6. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the c...
TEXT 8:5-14 _FIFTH SCENEThe Homeward Journey, Song of Solomon 8:5-14_ Villagers (or the Shepherd's Companions): Inquiry, Song of Solomon 8:5 a _The Lovers:_ Dialogue,...
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. WATERS - in contrast with the "coals of...
Render, 'If a man were ready to give the whole substance of his house for love, could any one despise him? 'No. It is better worth the purchase than anything else on earth. 8, 9. The solicitude which...
MEMORIES. THE CLOSE 5. The chorus enquire who this happy bride may be. And the bridegroom points her to the apple-tree where he had once found her asleep, and to the spot where she was born. These ar...
A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE SONG OF SONGS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 THE WOMAN V1 I wish that you were like my brother. My mother fed him at her breasts....
Plentiful water can put out a fire. But nothing can put out love. Nothing can destroy real love. Love is not something that a person can buy. It is a gift. One person gives it, without price, to anot...
IT WOULD UTTERLY BE CONTEMNED. — Better, _he would be, &c_, and literally, _to despise, they would despise him;_ infinitive absolute before finite verb expressing intensity. (Comp. 1 Samuel 20:6; Amos...
מַ֣יִם רַבִּ֗ים לֹ֤א יֽוּכְלוּ֙ לְ כַבֹּ֣ות א
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...
C. The United Life (Song of Solomon 7:10; Song of Solomon 8:1) I. The Bride (Song of Solomon 7:10;...
_Drown it. As other fires may be extinguished. He who sinks under persecution, has not real charity. Temptation does not weaken a person, but shews what he is, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 9. (Calmet) --- He...
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Here is the same obscurity in this verse, a...
SUMMARY TO THE SONG OF SOLOMON Chapter 8 stands by itself, and appears to me to recapitulate the principles of the whole book. It returns to the foundation of that which gave rise to all these exercis...
MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE, NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT,.... The love of the church to Christ, which is inextinguishable and insuperable, by the many waters and floods of wicked and ungodly me...
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if [a] man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Ver. 7. _Many waters cannot quench love....
_Set me as a seal upon thy heart_ These are undoubtedly the words of the bride. The sense is, Let thy mind and heart be constantly set upon me. Solomon seems to allude to the engraven tablets which we...
Many waters cannot quench love, as found in Jehovah, NEITHER CAN THE FLOODS DROWN IT, the rivers washing it away. IF A MAN WOULD GIVE ALL THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS HOUSE FOR LOVE, hoping to buy or gain it...
THE BLISSFUL UNION IN HEAVEN...
5-7 The Jewish church came up from the wilderness, supported by Divine power and favour. The Christian church was raised from a low, desolate condition, by the grace of Christ relied on. Believers, b...
It is the nature of love in general, and of my love to thee, that it cannot be taken off, neither by terrors and afflictions, which are commonly signified in Scripture by _waters_ and _floods_, PSALMS...
Song of Solomon 8:7 Many H7227 waters H4325 cannot H3201 (H8799) quench H3518 (H8763) love H160 floods H5104
_ “Set me as a seal on your heart, As a seal on your arm, For love is strong as death, Jealousy is cruel as Sheol, Its flashes are flashes of fire, A very flame of Yah. Many waters cannot quench love,...
CONTENTS: The affections between the Bridegroom and His Bride. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: Those who are espoused to the Lord Jesus, should desire constant intimacy and...
Song of Solomon 8:1. _Oh that thou wert as my brother._ The Chaldaic is a metaphrase of the text. “In the time that king Messiah shall be revealed to the congregation of Israel, they shall say to him,...
_If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned._ UNPURCHASABLE LOVE That is a general truth, applying to all forms of real love; you cannot purchase love....
_Set me as a seal upon Thine heart, as a seal upon Thine arm._ THE SHULAMITE’S CHOICE PRAYER This is the prayer of one who hath the present enjoyment of fellowship with Christ, but being apprehensiv...
NOTES Song of Solomon 8:5. _I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth; there the brought thee forth that bare thee_. ‘I raised thee up,’ עוֹרַרְתִּיךָ _’orarlicha_, P...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 8:1 Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; and none would despise me. I would lead thee,...
The bride continues her song. O that thou wert as my brother, that nursed upon the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. I would lead...
Isaiah 43:2; Matthew 7:24; Matthew 7:25; Proverbs 6:31; Proverbs 6:35;
Many waters — My love to thee cannot be taken off, either by terrors and afflictions, which are commonly signified in scripture by waters and floods; or by temptations and allurements. Therefore, give...