Song of Solomon 2:2
SO IS How poor are the similes of the bride as compared with those of the Bridegroom. To him, she is a "lily among thorns; she can only say that he is "as the apple tree among the trees of the wood.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO IS How poor are the similes of the bride as compared with those of the Bridegroom. To him, she is a "lily among thorns; she can only say that he is "as the apple tree among the trees of the wood.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR WALL "Our wall." The bride had returned to her own home: the Bridegroom seeks her.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOVE There is beautiful order here. First we have what the bride is as seen in Christ, "My dove." In herself most faulty; in Him "blameless and harmless" (Philippians 2:15) the very character of the dove. The bride's place of safety, "in the clefts of the rock" -- hidden, so to speak, in the wounds... [ Continue Reading ]