Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 1:8
If thou know not - This appears to be the reply of the virgins. They know not exactly; and therefore direct the bride to the shepherds, who would give information. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:1-4
The prologue. I. THE INSCRIPTION . 1 . The title. We are told ( 1 Kings 4:1-34 :82) that the songs of Solomon were a thousand and five. This is the chief of all, the Song of Songs. It stands alone in the Old Testament. It is a pastoral drama of singular loveliness. It shows a delight in the beauties of nature such as we might look for in him who "spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; of beasts also, and of... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:1-4
The Bridegroom and the bride. Love's native language is poetry. When strong and happy feeling dominates the soul, it soon bursts into a song. As young life in a fruit tree breaks out into leaf and blossom, so the spiritual force of love unfolds in metaphor and music. Among the lyrics composed by King David, those which celebrate the Messiah-Prince have the richest glory of fervour, blossom most into Oriental imagery; and inasmuch as Solomon inherited somewhat the poetic genius of his... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:2-4
Desire after God. Translated into language more congenial to our ordinary Christian thought, these verses may be taken as a parabolic setting forth of the blessed truth contained in the well known words of the psalm, "My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?" It surely would be speaking blasphemy, and an abasement of the Bible, if we were to look on the sensuous words with which these verses begin as meaning nothing more than they say in their... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:4
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will make mention of thy love more than of wine: rightly do they love thee. This is best taken as all spoken by the bride. It is the language of the purest affection and adoring admiration. "I drew them," God says ( Hosea 11:4 ), "with cords of a man, with bands of love." "The Lord appeared of old unto me," says Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 31:3 ), "saying, Yea, I have loved thee... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:4
Divine attraction. There is evidence of attraction throughout the physical universe. The earth draws all things upon it towards its centre; it draws the moon and keeps it revolving round itself. The sun draws the planets, which in their regular orbits unconsciously yield to the influence which he unconsciously exerts. We cannot study any bodies, however distant and however vast, without perceiving the power of attraction. And this power is as manifest in the molecule as in the mass; there... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:4
The joyful celebration of Divine love. The king is represented as conducting his friends and guests into his splendid palace, admitting them to the apartments reserved for his most intimate and favoured courtiers, and thus revealing to them his condescension and affection. Such treatment awakens their joy, and calls forth the celebration of his love. The whole scene is symbolical of the privileges and the sacred delights of those who share in the "shining of God's countenance." I. ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:4-7
The soul's joy in the love of God. "The king hath brought me into his chambers," etc. If we may take this book as only an allegory, we find suggested in these verses this subject of the soul's joy. I. SUCH JOY IS BECAUSE OF THE KING 'S CHAMBERS . He has opened for her the unsearchable riches of his grace, "filled with all pleasant and precious riches" (cf. Proverbs 24:4 ). II. IS VERY GREAT . She will be glad and rejoice. She will "remember" his "love more... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:4-8
The Christian soul, its trials and triumphs. The maiden who speaks has been separated unwillingly from her beloved, after whom she incessantly mourns; she is kept in the king's chambers, the apartments of the women in his palace at Jerusalem. They ridicule her swarthy look, and she tells how her half-brothers had been unkind to her, and had made her work in the drudgery of the vineyards, beneath the scorching sun. Those about her wonder and scoff at her persistent affection. The story may... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me - where thou feedest - This is spoken as if the parties were shepherds, or employed in the pastoral life. But how this would apply either to Solomon, or the princes of Egypt, is not easy to ascertain. Probably in the marriage festival there was something like our masks, in which persons of quality assumed rural characters and their employments. See that fine one composed by Milton, called Comus. To rest at noon - In hot countries the shepherds and their flocks are obliged to... read more