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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Song of Solomon 4:15

Libanus. The law of the gospel was proclaimed by the apostles, who were Jews. They explained the pure doctrine of the Scriptures, and converted many.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 15. _A FOUNTAIN OF GARDENS_] Perhaps גנים _gannim_, "gardens," was originally ציים _chaiyim_, "lives," a _living_ _fountain_, a _continual spring_. See _Houbigant_. But this is expressed afterw...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The loveliness and purity of the bride are now set forth under the image of a paradise or garden fast barred against intruders, filled with rarest plants of excellent fragrance, and watered by abundan...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 The King, the Bridegroom speaks of her, who is “perfect through His comeliness put upon thee” Ezekiel 16:14. He tells out all she is in His sight and loving estimation. He has called her fro...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A FOUNTAIN. [With]. fountain. FOUNTAIN OF GARDENS. a garden-fountain, without which no garden was complete. LET MY BELOVED. The Shulamite speaks in response, with the eloquent brevity of her overwro...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Song of Solomon 4:8 Chap. Song of Solomon 5:1. A true Lover's Pleading With Song of Solomon 4:8 a new song, representing another scene, begins. In it the peasant lover of the Shulammite comes to b

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These verses are a further comparison of the bride in her beauty to a garden in its splendour of colour and its fertility, but a garden shut or closed to all but its lawful owner. The reference is to...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a fountain of gardens_, &c. Some take these words as vocatives, but more probably _thou art_is to be understood as in R.V. Budde would read -my garden" (_gannî_) for -gardens" (_gannîm_), and would t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A FOUNTAIN OF GARDENS, &C.— Houbigant reads it, _A living fountain, a fountain of living waters, flowing as it were from Lebanon._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT 4:8 to Song of Solomon 5:1 _SECOND MEETING (Jerusalem_); Prolepsis, Song of Solomon 4:8 to Song of Solomon 5:1 (Chronologically coming between...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. A FOUNTAIN OF GARDENS, A WELL OF LIVING WATERS - "of." This pleasure-ground is not dependent on mere reservoirs; it has a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The 'flowing' (RV) STREAMS, etc., reminds us of the many streams which run into the sea between Tyre and Beyrout....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DESCRIPTION OF HER CHARMS. HER INVITATION 1-7. This short poem belongs to the class which the Arabs call wasf, in which the bride's charms are described: they are sung while she is being dressed, or...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In fact, the woman did not come from Lebanon. So Solomon uses another description. Solomon had great knowledge about plants (1 Kings 4:33). He knew about plants with beautiful smells from many countri...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE SONG OF SONGS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE MAN V1 My *dear, you are so beautiful! Oh, you are beautiful!...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַעְיַ֣ן גַּנִּ֔ים בְּאֵ֖ר מַ֣יִם חַיִּ֑ים וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of So

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    III. The Actual Betrothal (Song of Solomon 3:6; Song of Solomon 4:1) 1. The Singer Song of Solomon 3:6). The Coming of Solomon. 2. Solomon...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (h) A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. (h) The Church confesses that all her glory and beauty comes from Christ who is the true fountain of all grace....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Here it should seem the Church takes up the discourse, and having heard her Lord thus enlarging upon the graces, which she wel...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    And now, chapter 4, He declares all that she is in His sight, although she has been in the lion's den. From thence He calls her, all fair and without spot in His eyes; His heart expressing His delight...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    A FOUNTAIN OF GARDENS, A WELL OF LIVING WATERS, AND STREAMS FROM LEBANON. Some c take these words to be the words of Christ continued, speaking still of his church, and explaining and enlarging upon w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Ver. 15. _A fountain of gardens, a well, &c._] Or, O fountain of the gardens, &c. For they do best in mine opinion that make...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A well of living waters_ Though my spouse be in some sort a fountain shut up, yet that is not so to be understood as if she kept her waters to herself, for she is like a fountain of living or running...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, fed by inexhaustible springs, AND STREAMS FROM LEBANON, fed by its perpetual snows, cool and refreshing. The bride, wrought up to the highest pitch of e...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE RAVISHING LOVE OF THE CHURCH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-15 Observe the gracious call Christ gives to the church. It is, 1. A precept; so this is Christ's call to his church to come off from the world. These hills seem pleasant, but there are in them lio...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    These are the words either, 1. Of the bride, who returns this answer to the Bridegroom. Thou callest me a fountain, but in truth thou only art that fountain from whence I derive all my streams of com...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Song of Solomon 4:15 fountain H4599 gardens H1588 well H875 living H2416 waters H4325 streams H5140 (H8802) Lebanon...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    The BRIDEGROOM now delights in the fact that his bride is his, and his alone. _ “A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Your shoots are an orchard of pomegrana...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This is a chapter which is, perhaps, more adapted for private meditation than for rending in public. Nevertheless, as this is a communion season, and I trust that the most of us are partakers of the l...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The Bridegroom commends the beauty of the Bride and delights in her affection. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: Whatever others think of the Bride of Christ, she is...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Song of Solomon 4:8. _Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse._ This endearing appellative occurs here for the first time. This summerhouse of Solomon was built in the forest of Lebanon, and was intended...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon._ THE CHURCH A GARDEN Again and again the Church is represented as a garden, all up and down the Word of God, and it is a fi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 4:15 The comparison to a GARDEN FOUNTAIN is extended to indicate the refreshing quality of the woman’s sexuality....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Song of Solomon 4:9. _Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse: thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck_. ‘Thou hast ravished my heart’ (לִבַּבְתּ...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 4:1 BEHOLD, THOU ART FAIR, MY LOVE; BEHOLD, THOU ART FAIR; THINE EYES ARE AS DOVES BEHIND THY VEIL; THINE HAIR IS AS A FLOCK OF GOATS, THAT LIE ALONG THE SIDE OF MOUNT GILE...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And now the bridegroom speaks. Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 2:6; Jeremiah 17:13; Jeremiah 18:13; Jeremiah 18:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Living water — Though my spouse be in some sort a fountain shut up, yet that is not so to be understood as if she kept her waters to herself, for she is like a fountain of living or running water, whi...

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