CONTENTS The church appears, in the opening of this Chapter, to have called forth the serious enquiry of others to seek Jesus with her. And she seems delighted to give information concerning him. Christ then takes up the discourse, and sets forth the loveliness of his church, and his delight in her... [ Continue Reading ]
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I detain the Reader, in the opening of this verse, to remark to him once more, if the remark be again necessary, that this answer of the church, to those that were seeking her Lord, carries... [ Continue Reading ]
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. I need not detain the Reader over this verse, having already noticed it, Song of Solomon 2:16. to which I refer; unless it be to remark once more, the delight the church takes in the conscious property she hath in Jesus, and Je... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. Here Jesus takes up the discourse, and which he doth in the most gracious manner, in commendations of his love. He saith that she is beautiful as Tirzah. There was a city in the tribe of Manasseh called... [ Continue Reading ]
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. Some have translated these words, Turn thine eyes to me, and they say it means the call of Jesus to his church to be always looking to him. Isaiah 45:22. And, indeed, there is but too mu... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof everyone beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. (7) As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. These verses, as well as the latter part of the former verse, have been already noticed; Song of... [ Continue Reading ]
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. (9) My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. In... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? It should seem that this verse is introduced here in accommodation of the church of Christ, by some looker-on; perhaps the daughters of Jerusalem: and the description is uncommonly... [ Continue Reading ]
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Some refer these words to the church in seeking after Christ; but there seems a more orderly agreement with all that is before to accept them as the words o f Je... [ Continue Reading ]
Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. And Jehovah speaks and the church thus conscious of the presence of her Lord visiting his garden, felt that blessed but sudden effect that her soul became as the chariots of Amminadib, perhaps the swiftest ever known. But some have... [ Continue Reading ]
Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. The church is in this verse called upon, most probably by the daughters of Jerusalem, to return. But it doth not so immediately appear what the church is... [ Continue Reading ]