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 morning she invites him into her home. She wants him to meet her mother. It was the tradition that parents would arrange for the couple to become engaged (Judges 14:2; 2 Samuel 13:13).
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I HELD HIM... — Bossuet, following Bede, regards this as prophetic of Mary Magdalen (type of the Church) on the morning of the Resurrection....
כִּ מְעַט֙ שֶׁ עָבַ֣רְתִּי מֵהֶ֔ם עַ֣ד שֶֽׁ
TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of So
B. The Betrothal (Song of Solomon 2:8; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of Solomon 4:1; Song of Solomon
_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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
_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...
REVERSES AND NEW HOPES FOR THE CHURCH. The Church in Difficulties...
It was but a little that I passed from them, she had scarcely passed from the watchmen, BUT I FOUND HIM WHOM MY SOUL LOVETH; I HELD HIM, grasping Him in an eager embrace, AND WOULD NOT LET HIM GO UNTI...
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...
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...
Song of Solomon 3:4 Scarcely H4592 passed H5674 (H8804) found H4672 (H8804) love H5315 H157 (H8804) held
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Galatians 4:26; Genesis 32:26; Hosea 12:3; Hosea 12:4; Isaiah 45:19;...
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...