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Verse Song of Solomon 3:4. _INTO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE_] The _women_ in
the East have all _separate apartments_, into which no person ever
attempts to enter except the _husband_. We find _Isaac_ bringing...
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I HELD HIM - This begins the fourth stanza. The bride’s mother is
mentioned again in Song of Solomon 6:9; Song of Solomon 8:2....
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CHAPTER 3
The scene changes. The bride is now alone and in the darkness of the
night. She is seeking her Beloved and is unable to find Him. Her heart
is filled with the same love she exhibits in the p...
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A DREAM OF LOVE. The adjuration Song of Solomon 3:5 (_cf._ Song of
Solomon 2:7) may have been added to adapt the passionate poem to the
wedding week, in which there was much noisy revelling. For anoth...
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IT WAS BUT. LITTLE THAT. Scarcely.
A LITTLE. a little while. See note on "almost", Proverbs 5:14.
FROM THEM. them.
BUT. when.
HELD. seized.
CHAMBER. inner chamber....
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Song of Solomon 3:1-5. A Dream
Almost all commentators agree that we have here a dream narrated to
some persons, in which the Shulammite seems to herself to have sought
her lover in the city and fail...
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It was _but a little that I passed from them_ i.e. HARDLY HAD I GONE
FROM THEM _when I found him whom my soul loveth_.
_I held him_ Rather, I LAID HOLD ON HIM.
_and would not let him go_ Better, eith...
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DISCOURSE: 850
PERSEVERANCE CROWNED WITH SUCCESS
Song of Solomon 3:1. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul
loveth; I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go
about the city in...
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TEXT 3:1-5
c.
Relation of a Dream, Song of Solomon 3:1-4
d.
Adjuration to Court Ladies, Song of Solomon 3:5 (second)
1.
On my bed night after night I sought him whom my soul loves;
I sought him...
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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 tha...
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NIGHT THOUGHTS AND AN INTERLUDE
1-4. There is a charming lightness of touch and quickness of movement
in the story she tells, and it is all the more interesting for our
having to supply the prosaic c...
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The 'mother's house' is the women's apartments, into which a strange
man dare not enter.
6-11. It is possible that this is a song of the bridegroom's
companions on the morrow of the wedding, when the...
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When the young woman finds Solomon, she is not still proud. She now
realises that she needs him. And she wants to be his wife. Last night
she sent him away. Her proud words were very foolish. But this...
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A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE
SONG OF SONGS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 3
THE WOMAN
V1 At night, when I was on my bed, I looked for my man.
He is the man that my heart loves....
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I HELD HIM... — Bossuet, following Bede, regards this as prophetic
of Mary Magdalen (type of the Church) on the morning of the
Resurrection....
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כִּ מְעַט֙ שֶׁ עָבַ֣רְתִּי מֵהֶ֔ם
עַ֣ד שֶֽׁ
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TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of
Solomon 3:1; Song of So
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B. The Betrothal (Song of Solomon 2:8; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of
Solomon 4:1; Song of Solomon
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_Me. She was perhaps dead. Women had separate apartments, to which
none but the husband could have access, Genesis xxiv. 28. At the end
of the marriage-feast, the bride was conducted to her husband's...
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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...
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In chapter 3 we have another attitude, another state of heart. She is
alone and in darkness. She seeks her Beloved, but finds Him not. There
is affection, but no joy. She questions the watchmen in Jer...
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[IT WAS] BUT A LITTLE THAT I PASSED FROM THEM,.... Either a small
moment of time, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; or a little distance of
place, that is, from the watchmen or ministers, from whom she pas...
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Song of Solomon 3:4 [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 t...
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_It was but a little, &c., but I found him_ Christ met me, and
manifested his love to me. _I brought him into my mother's house_ As
the spouse here signifies particular believers, so her mother is the...
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1-5 It was hard to the Old Testament church to find Christ in the
ceremonial law; the watchmen of that church gave little assistance to
those who sought after him. The night is a time of coldness, da...
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I FOUND HIM; Christ met me, and manifested his love to me, according
to his promise made to those that seek him constantly and diligently,
PROVERBS 8:17 MATTHEW 7:7, &c. I HELD HIM, AND WOULD NOT LET...
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Song of Solomon 3:4 Scarcely H4592 passed H5674 (H8804) found H4672
(H8804) love H5315 H157 (H8804) held
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THE YOUNG MAIDEN DREAMS THAT SHE HAS LOST HER BELOVED (SONG OF SOLOMON
3:1).
THE YOUNG MAIDEN'S FIRST NIGHTMARE.
Song of Solomon 3:1
‘By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves, I sought hi...
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3:1. _By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought
him, but I found him not._
Sometimes, the most eager search does not at once obtain its end. For
wise reasons, Christ sometimes hid...
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Song of Solomon 3:1. _By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul
loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go
about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek h...
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CONTENTS: The Bride seeking the favor of the Bridegroom. She calls
upon all to admire Him.
CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church).
CONCLUSION: Those who are truly of the Bride, will evince the...
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Song of Solomon 3:7. _Behold his bed, which is Solomon's;_ the palace
where he sleeps, and where so many treasures of gold and works of art
are preserved. _Threescore valiant men are about it._ His bo...
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_It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found Him whom my
soul loveth: I held Him and would net let Him go._
THE REAL PRESENCE, THE GREAT WANT OF THE CHURCH
As God, Jesus is everywhere; a...
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SONG OF SOLOMON—NOTE ON SONG OF SOLOMON 3:4 CHAMBER OF HER WHO
CONCEIVED ME. Her mother’s bedroom presents a secure and intimate
place for the two lovers. The woman has a similar desire to bring her...
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The Missing One Found
Chapter 3 Song of Solomon 3:1
PROBABLY A DREAM RELATED BY SHULAMITE TO THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM
By night on my bed
I sought him whom my soul loveth;
I sought him, but I found...
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EXPOSITION
SONG OF SOLOMON 3:1
BY NIGHT ON MY BED I SOUGHT HIM WHOM MY SOUL LOVETH: I SOUGHT HIM, BUT
I FOUND HIM NOT. The bride is probably relating a dream. The time
referred to is the close of the...
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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but
found him not. 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...
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Galatians 4:26; Genesis 32:26; Hosea 12:3; Hosea 12:4; Isaiah 45:19;...
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Found him — Christ met me, and manifested his love to me. Mother's
house — As the spouse here, signifies particular believers, so her
mother is the universal church, or the true Jerusalem, which hath...