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The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

The bride ' s reminiscence of a love dream. I was asleep, but my heart waked, It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night. There is a resemblance between this account of what was apparently a dream, and that which is related in So Song of Solomon 3:1-4 ; but the difference is very clear. In the former case the lover is represented as dismissed for a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

The flesh and spirit. "I sleep, but my heart waketh." The body sleeping, the heart awake. I. SOMETIMES , AS HERE , BUT ONE OF THESE IS AWAKE . 1 . Here it was the spirit. 2 . Often it is only the flesh that is awake. This a fearful condition. Cf. St. Jude, "These be sensual, not having the Spirit." Men may, do, sink down into gross animalism. It is horrible as well as disgraceful. It was that which led to the destruction of Sodom, of the Canaanites, etc.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

Languid life. The experiences of the saints are useful guide posts on the heavenly road. They help by way of counsel, caution, inspiration, comfort, warning. Some experiences recorded serve as lighthouses, some as beacons. A wise pilgrim will not despise any one of them. If a traveller is about to cross Africa from west to east, he will not fail to ask what were the fortunes and experiences of those who have already made that perilous journey. He will learn from their mistakes and their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

The heart that waketh. Thus opens the recital of a dream—a dream which was the confused expression of deep feelings, of affection, of apprehension, of anxiety. The expression is poetical; the body slumbers, yet the mind and its feelings are not altogether asleep. A slumbering heart is inaccessible to the Divine approach, the Divine appeal, the Divine mercy. It is well when the heart waketh, for the wakeful heart is— I. PROMPT TO HEAR THE VOICE OF HEAVEN . The mother... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2-5

Open to the beloved who knocketh. This dream, so significant of fervent affection, and so full of tender pathos, is emblematic of the relation between the Divine Saviour and Lord and those whom he approaches in his grace and kindness, to whom he proffers the blessing of his presence and his love. I. THE SUMMONS . 1 . Its nature. There is the knock which demands attention, and there is the speech which articulately conveys the appeal. Christ comes to the world, and comes to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2-8

The second dream of the bride. I. THE BRIDEGROOM AT THE DOOR . 1 . The voice of the beloved. The bridegroom is absent; the bride is alone. There is a temporary separation, something approaching to an estrangement; yet the old love is not lost. The bride is sleeping when she should be awake and watching for the bridegroom's approach. Yet her heart waketh. She has a dreamy consciousness of what is going on around her; she seems to hear in her dream the voice of her beloved.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2-8

The dream of Gethsemane. Under the imagery of this dream devout students have seen pictured forth the pathetic facts of the garden in which our Lord was in agony, and his disciples slept (cf. Matthew 26:40-43 and parallels). We have— I. THE DISTRESSED SAVIOR . ( Song of Solomon 5:2 .) He desired his disciples to watch with him. He needed and desired their sympathy and the solace which their watchful love would have given him. His soul was troubled. He was as he who is told of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:3

I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? Evidently the meaning is, "I have retired to rest; do not disturb me." She is lying in bed. The cuttoneth , or χτιών , was the linen garment worn next the body—from cathan, "linen." The Arabic kutun is "cotton;" hence the French coton , "calico, or cotton" shift. Shulamith represents herself as failing in love, not meeting the condescension and affection of her lover as she should.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:4

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him. The door hole is a part of the door pierced through at the upper part of the lock, or door bolt ( מִן־הַחוֹר ), that is, by the opening from without to within, or through the opening, as if, i.e; to open the door by pressing back the lock or bolt from within. There was some obstacle. He tailed to open it. It had not been left so that he could easily obtain admittance. The metaphor is very apt and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:5

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt. The meaning seems to be that the lover had come to the door perfumed as if for a festival, and the costly ointment which he brought with him has dropped on the handles of the bolts. Similar allusions may be found in Lucretius and other heathen writers. This description is, of course, inapplicable to the shepherd theory. It would not be a rough country swain that... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:5

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