_I sought Him, but I found Him not._ HIDINGS OF GOD Prophetically these verses may be taken as delineating the sorrow of the first disciples at the departure of Christ from the earth. Between Easter Day and Pentecost the infant Church was very much as here described. We would not, however, limit t... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Watchmen that go about the city._ GOSPEL WATCHMEN The ministers of the Gospel are called watchmen, either in allusion to shepherds, who watch over their flock by night (Luke 2:8); or else, to watchmen in cities as here; and their work may be considered: 1. With regard to themselves; they are... [ 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 net let Him go._ THE REAL PRESENCE, THE GREAT WANT OF THE CHURCH As God, Jesus is everywhere; as man, He is only in heaven; as God and man in one person, Mediator and Head of the Church, He is p... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness?_ THE ROYAL PAIR IN THEIR GLORIOUS CHARIOT Great princes in the East are in the habit of travelling in splendid palanquins, which are at the same time chariots and beds. The person reclines within, screened by curtains from public view; a bodyguard pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon._ SOLOMON’S CHARIOT I. Solomon was a type of Jesus Christ. 1. In his offices he represented Jesus. (1) He was, as you know full well, a king, and a very notable king, richer and wiser and more glorious than any of the kings of the earth... [ Continue Reading ]
_The midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem._ PAVED WITH LOVE This palanquin or travelling chariot in which the king is carried, represents the covenant of grace, the plan of salvation, and, in fact, the whole system by which the Lord Jesus comes down in mercy among me... [ 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._ THE CORONATION OF JESUS Here we have, by the voice of the Holy Ghost, the account of the coronation of human nature in the person of the Incarnate Word. As “the... [ Continue Reading ]