Song of Solomon 8:14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, &c. The Shulamite lets him hear it; and, before all, announces and avows him as her beloved, bidding him always to hasten to her like a gazelle. upon = [that turneth itself about] upon: or that boundeth over the mountains of spices (Song of Solomon 4:6 ), "Besamim. " (= spices); and no longer over the mountains of separation " Bather" (Song of Solomon 2:17 ). read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 8:14

Song of Solomon 8:14. The mountains of spices— That is, the mountains where spices grow; such as those mentioned, chap. Son 4:6 and chap. Son 2:17 and some have thought that it should be rendered here, as in the last place, the mountains of בשׂמים Besamim. What these mountains were we are now ignorant, though it is certain that the creatures here mentioned were bred in the highest mountains of the country: as AElian testifies in the latter end of his fifth book: "The harts in Syria are bred in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 8:14

14. (See on :-). As she began with longing for His first coming ( :-), so she ends with praying for His second coming (Psalms 130:6; Philippians 3:20; Philippians 3:21; Revelation 22:20). MOODY STUART makes the roe upon spices to be the musk deer. As there are four gardens, so four mountains, which form not mere images, as Gilead, Carmel, c., but part of the structure of the Song: (1) Bether, or division (Revelation 22:20- :), God's justice dividing us from God. (2) Those "of leopards" (Song... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 8:5-14

Memories. The Close5. The chorus enquire who this happy bride may be. And the bridegroom points her to the apple-tree where he had once found her asleep, and to the spot where she was born. These are lovers’ reminiscences, sweet to them, trivial to others.6, 7. Her passionate clinging to him, and her assertion of the irresistibleness, the indestructibleness, the unselfishness of genuine love.6. She would fain be as inseparable from him as the seal-cylinder, which men wore on a cord round the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Song of Solomon 8:14

(14) Make haste, my beloved.—Song of Solomon 8:14 recalls the answer made at last to the sighs. It repeats the metaphor of Song of Solomon 2:17, where we see that the Authorised Version, make haste, is more correct than the margin. Thus the poem ends with two short verses that compress into them all that has been over and over again related under different figures: the wooing and the wedding of two happy souls. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Song of Solomon 8:1-14

The First and Greatest Commandment Song of Solomon 8:3 I. See how every power of the mind is embraced by, and concerned in, this love: how the head and the heart, knowledge and feeling, the understanding and the will, are all swallowed up by it. And yet, the very text tells us which is of more value in the Lord's sight. Just as the Seraphim, that are on fire with love, hold a more exalted estate than the Cherubim, that are perfect in knowledge so here 'His left hand should be under my head,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Song of Solomon 8:1-14

MYSTICAL INTERPRETATIONSTHUS far we have been considering the bare, literal sense of the text. It cannot be denied that, if only to lead up to the metaphorical significance of the words employed, those words must be approached through their primary physical meanings. This is essential even to the understanding of pure allegory such as that of "The Faerie Queene" and "The Pilgrim’s Progress"; we must understand the adventures of the Red Cross Knight and the course of Christian’s journey before... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Song of Solomon 8:1-14

CHAPTER 8 The last chapter of the Song is a review of the whole. There is unquestionably a recapitulation of the entire book. The bride’s desires are once more given to be loved and caressed by Him. For the last time we have the charge to the daughters of Jerusalem and once more the coming is announced. “Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness leaning upon her Beloved?” She returns with Him. The Beloved is mentioned seven times in the book. There is the voice of the Beloved (Song of... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Song of Solomon 8:14

8:14 {k} Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.(k) The Church desires Christ that if he depart from them, yet he would haste to help them in their troubles. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Song of Solomon 8:1-14

Acts 4:0 , SCENE 1 This subsection corresponds to the afternoon of the fourth day, and carries us through chapter 6. The occasion looks like a formal visit of the bridegroom, with his courtiers, to the bride and her maids of honor. The place is a room in her future palace. Solomon begins his praises (Song of Solomon 6:4-12 ), when the bride rises to retire, but the courtiers beg her to remain (Song of Solomon 6:13 ). The ladies inquire, “What will ye see in the Shulamite?” or “Why do ye desire... read more