Song of Solomon 5:1

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: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. Song of Solomon 5:1 Answer to her prayer, while she is still speaking. I AM COME - already: her prayer had been, "Let my beloved come" etc.; The Beloved was there before she was aware. SISTER ... SPOUSE - as Adam's was created of his flesh, cut of his opened side, there being none on earth on a level with him; so the bride, out of the pierced Saviour (Ephesians 5:30). HAVE GATHERED ... MYRRH. His course was already complete: the myrrh, etc. ...

1 See how ready Christ is to accept the invitations of his people. What little good there is in us would be lost, if he did not preserve it to himself. He also invites his beloved people to eat and drink abundantly. The ordinances in which they honour him, are means of grace....

CHAPTER V _The bridegroom calls on his spouse to admit him_, 1-3. _She hesitates; but arising finds him gone, seeks him, and_ _is treated unworthily by the city watch_, 4-7. _Inquires of the daughters of Jerusalem, who question her_ _concerning her beloved_, 8, 9. _This gives her occasion to enter into a fine description of_ _his person and accomplishments_, 10-16. NOTES ON CHAP. V Verse Song of Solomon 5:1. _I AM COME INTO MY GARDEN_] באתי _bathi_, I came, or have come; this should be translated

MY HONEYCOMB - literally, “my reed” or “my wood,” i. e., the substance itself, or portions of it in which the comb is formed. The bees in Palestine form their combs not only in the hollows of trees and rocks, but also in reeds by the river-banks. The king’s meaning appears to be: “All pleases me in thee, there is nothing to despise or cast away.” EAT, O FRIENDS - A salutation from the king to his assembled guests, or to the chorus of young men his companions, bidding them in the gladness of his heart Song of Solomon 3:11 partake of the banquet. So ends this day of outward festivity and supreme heart-joy. The first half of the Song of Songs is fitly closed. The second half of the poem commences Song of Solomon 5:

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, O FRIENDS; DRINK, YEA, DRINK ABUNDANTLY, O BELOVED. _My myrrh with my balsam _(see 1 Kings 10:10). There were celebrated plantations at Jericho. The Queen of Sheba brought "of spices very great store;" "There came no more such abundance of spices as these which the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Is there a reference to the conversion of the heathen nations in this? The wine and milk are what God offers to his people (see Isaiah 55:1) without money

I AM COME INTO MY GARDEN, MY SISTER, [MY] SPOUSE,.... This verse should rather have concluded the preceding chapter, being Christ's answer to the church's request, which was speedily and exactly granted as she desired; which shows it was according to the will of Christ, and of which he informs her; for sometimes he is present, when it is not known he is: of the titles used, see Song of Solomon 4:8; and of Christ's coming into his garden, Song of Solomon 4:16. What he did, when come into it, follows: I HAVE GATHERED MY MYRRH WITH MY SPICE: to make an ointment of, and anoint his guests with, after invited, as was usual in those times and countries, Luke 7:38; "oil of myrrh" is mentione

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 is both “sister and spouse.” When He speaks of her as sister, He owns the national relationship. In Matthew 12:46 He disowned that relationship because they rejected the offer of the kingdom, but now it is reestablished and the godly portion of Israel becomes the spouse. In His garden, the product of His love and His death, He finds now His enjoyment, His joy and His satisfaction. He invites others to come and partake. “Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, beloved ones.” But there is no response here from the side of the bride. She exhibits slothfulness. He is seen now standing outside; His head is filled with the night dew and standing at the door He knocks (See...

SONG OF SOLOMON 4:13 TO SONG OF SOLOMON 5:1. THE BRIDE AS A GARDEN. The charms of the bride are now described under the figure of the fruits of the garden. Song of Solomon 4:16 gives the gracious invitation of the bride to the lover, who in such enthusiastic terms has praised her beauty. SONG OF SOLOMON 5:1 declares his ready acceptance and his call to friends to enjoy similar delights,...

I AM COME. I am coming. This is the shepherd's suitable reply to her brief invitation. SPOUSE. betrothed, as in Song of Solomon 4:8; Song of Solomon 4:9; Song of Solomon 4:10; Song of Solomon 4:12. I HAVE GATHERED. I am gathering. I HAVE EATEN. I am eating. I HAVE DRUNK. I am drinking. (The perfect tenses being used for the present. See Kautzsch's _Gesenius,_ 106.) WINE. Hebrew. _yayin_. App-27. EAT,. FRIENDS. The words of the court-ladies, encouraging the Shulamite and her beloved (masculine). See

Song of Solomon 5:1. The great question regarding this verse is how the perfect tenses in it are to be understood. Some maintain that they must be rigorously taken as perfects; others think that they should be understood in one or other of the modified perfect senses which this tense may have in Heb. Grammatically we may render either, _I have come_, or _I come_(cp. Ges. _Gr_. § 106 _i_); or lastly _I will come_, perf. of confidence (Ges. § 106 _n_). Those who, like Delitzsch, suppose that the marriage has taken place, take the first; Budde, who regards the song as one sung after the marriage has been celebrated, but during the week of festivities, takes the second; those who regard the marriage as still in the future cannot but take the perfs. in the third sense. In that case the words indicate that after what the bride has revealed of her love, the brideg