Song of Solomon 5:2

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. I SLEEP, BUT MY HEART WAKETH ... (SAYING), OPEN TO ME. Sudden change of scene from evening to midnight, from a betrothal feast to cold repulse. He has gone from the feast alone: night is come. He knocks at the door of His espoused; she hears, but in sloth does not shake off half-conscious drowsiness: namely, the disciples' torpor (), 'the spirit willing the flesh weak' (cf. Romans 7:15). Not total sleep. The lamp was burning beside the slumbering wipe virgin, but wanted trimming ...

2-8 Churches and believers, by carelessness and security, provoke Christ to withdraw. We ought to notice our spiritual slumbers and distempers. Christ knocks to awaken us, knocks by his word and Spirit, knocks by afflictions and by our consciences; thus, Revelation 3:20. When we are unmindful of Christ, still he thinks of us. Christ's love to us should engage ours to him, even in the most self-denying instances; and we only can be gainers by it. Careless souls put slights on Jesus Christ. Another could not be sent to open the door. Christ calls to us, but we have no mind, or pretend we have no strength, or we have no time, and think we may be excused. Making excuses is making light of Christ. Those put contempt upon Christ, who cannot find in their hearts to bear a cold blast, or to leave a warm bed for him. See the powerful influences of Divine grace. He put in his hand to unbolt the d...

Verse Song of Solomon 5:2. _I SLEEP, BUT MY HEART WAKETH_] This is a _new part_; and some suppose that the _fifth_ day's solemnity begins here. _Though I_ _sleep, yet so_ impressed is _my heart_ with the excellences of my beloved, that my imagination presents him to me in the most pleasing _dreams_ throughout the night. I doubt whether the whole, from this verse to the end of the _seventh_, be not a _dream_: several parts of it bear this resemblance; and I confess there are some parts of it, such as her hesitating to rise, his sudden disappearance, c., which would be of easier solution on this supposition. Or part of the transactions mentioned might be the _effects of the dream_ she had, as rising up suddenly, and going out into the street, meeting with the watchmen, c., before she was well awake. And her being in so much di...

Some time may be supposed to have elapsed since the bride’s solemn espousals with the king Song of Solomon 4:7-5. A transient cloud of doubt or estrangement is now passing over her soul, as by the relation of this dream she intimates to her friends. Ancient allegorical interpreters find here a symbol of the condition and feelings of Israel during the Babylonian captivity, when the glories and privileges of Solomon’s Temple were no more, and the manifested presence of the Holy One had been withdrawn. Israel in exile seeks the Lord Song of Solomon 5:8, and will find Him again in the second temple Song of Solomon 6:3. I sl

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 SLEEP, BUT MY HEART WAKETH,.... Like persons that are half awake, half asleep, whom Cicero x calls "semisomni". Christ and the church having feasted together at his invitation, she soon after fell asleep, as the disciples did after a repast with their Lord; yet not so fast asleep but that she was sensible of it; for this was not the dead sleep of sin, in which unconverted men are, and are insensible of; nor a judicial slumber some are given up unto, and perceive it not, yet a frame of spirit unbecoming saints, and displeasing to Christ; though consistent with grace, which at such a time is not, or very little, in exercise; they are slothful in duty, and backward to it; the phrase is sometimes used to describe a sluggish, slothful man y; they are indifferent and lukewarm about divine things, content themselves with the bare externals of religion, without the lively exercise of grace, an...

SLEEP The bride is satisfied with her washed feet while the Bridegroom, His "head filled with dew," and His "locks with the drops of night," is toiling for others. See (Luke 6:12); (Luke 14:21). The state of the bride is not one of sin, but of neglect of service. She is preoccupied with the graces and perfections which she has in Christ through the Spirit; (1 Corinthians 12:4); (Galatians 5:22); (Galatians 5:23). It is mysticism, unbalanced by the activities of the Christian warfare. Her feet are washed, her hands drop with

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...

ANOTHER DREAM-POEM. It is not certain where the division should be made here, but it is possible to treat these verses as a separate poem and regard Song of Solomon 5:8 f. as the introduction to the _wasf_ on the bridegroom (Song of Solomon 5:10 to Song of Solomon 6:3). The originality of Song of Solomon 5:7 has been questioned as an expansion of Song of Solomon 3:3, but it may well be part of a troubled dream. The description is very vivid and beautiful. The voice of the beloved heard a

I SLEEP. I was asleep, or sleepy. WAKETH. kept awake. IT IS. Supply "it was". MY BELOVED. Hebrew masculine. THAT KNOCKETH. he is knocking (masculine). MY LOVE. my friend. Feminine. Hebrew. _ra'yah,_ as in Song of Solomon 1:9; Song of Solomon 1:15; Song of Solomon 2:2; Song of Solomon 2:10; Song of Solomon 2:13; Song of Solomo