By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. Song of Solomon 3:1 BY NIGHT - literally, 'By nights.' Continuation of the losing for the dawn of Messiah (). The spiritual desertion here (; ). is not due to indifference, as in Song of Solomon 5:2. 'As night... [ Continue Reading ]
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I WILL RISE NOW - wholly, awake for God (Luke 15:18; ). 'An honest resolution is often to (the doing of) duty like a needle that draws the thread a... [ Continue Reading ]
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? WATCHMEN - ministers (; ; ); fit persons to consult (). FOUND ME - the general ministry of the Word 'finds' individually souls in quest of Jesus Christ (); whereas formalists remain unaffected.... [ Continue Reading ]
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. (IT WAS) BUT A LITTLE THAT I PASSED FROM THEM. Jesus Christ is generally "found... [ Continue Reading ]
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. I CHARGE YOU ... - so ; but there it was for the non-interruption of her own fellowship with Jesus Christ that she was anxious; here it is for the not gr... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? New scene (Song of Solomon 3:6). The friends of the Bridegroom see a cortege approach: the palanquin and guard. WHO (IS) THIS THAT COMETH OUT - rather, up f... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. In time wilderness character of the Church is portrayed; in Song of Solomon 3:7, its militant aspect. In Song of Solomon 3:9, Jesus Christ is seen dwelling in believers, who are His "chariot" and "b... [ Continue Reading ]
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. THEY ALL HOLD SWORDS - not actually grasping them, but having them "girt on the thigh" ready for use, like their Lord. So believers, too, are guarded by angels (), and they themselves... [ Continue Reading ]
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. MADE HIMSELF A CHARIOT - more elaborately made than the "bed," or traveling litter (Song of Solomon 3:7) [ 'apiryown (H668)]: from a Hebrew root [paaraah], to elaborate (Ewald). So the temple of "cedar of Lebanon," as compared with the... [ Continue Reading ]
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. PILLARS - supporting the canopy at the four corners: curtains at the side protect the person within from the sun. Pillars with... [ Continue Reading ]
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. GO FORTH - (.) DAUGHTERS OF ZION. Fully to be accomplished at Christ's second coming. Earnests have been given alr... [ Continue Reading ]