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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:1-16

Chapter 5Chapter 5, the bridegroom replies,I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ( Song of Solomon 5:1 ).Now the bride responds, and she said,I sleep, but my heart is awake: it is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Song of Solomon 5:1-16

Song of Solomon 5:9 . What is thy beloved more than another beloved? To address this question to Pharaoh’s daughter, had been the highest insult. More therefore is intended in this sublime of songs than a mere nuptial poem. The address is to the church of Judea, whose husband is the Lord of hosts. Song of Solomon 5:10 . The chiefest among ten thousand. The standard bearer, or the captain general of ten thousand. So when he comes to judge the unbelieving world, the armies of heaven shall... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Song of Solomon 5:2

Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my Beloved that knocketh.Asleep and yet awake-A RiddleWe are glad to perceive in this Song the varied experience of the bride. She was the well-beloved of the heavenly Bridegroom, but she was not without her faults. Let us bless God that in the Book of revealed truth He has not merely given us the ideal standard after which we are to seek, but He has also preserved for us the humbler patterns of those who have striven to reach... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:2

Son 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: [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, [and] my locks with the drops of the night. Ver. 2. I sleep, but my heart waketh. ] It was no sound sleep that she took. She did not snort aloud in the cradle of security, as those do whom the devil hath cast into a deep lethargy, but napped and nodded a little, and that by candlelight too, as those wise virgins... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Song of Solomon 5:2

sleep: Song of Solomon 3:1, Song of Solomon 7:9, Daniel 8:18, Zechariah 4:1, Matthew 25:4, Matthew 25:5, Matthew 26:40, Matthew 26:41, Luke 9:32, Ephesians 5:14 the voice: Song of Solomon 2:8, Song of Solomon 2:10, John 10:4 knocketh: Revelation 3:20 Open: Psalms 24:7-2 Samuel :, Psalms 81:10, Proverbs 23:26 my dove: Song of Solomon 2:14, Song of Solomon 6:9, Psalms 119:1, Revelation 3:4, Revelation 14:4 my head: Song of Solomon 8:7, Genesis 29:20, Genesis 31:40, Genesis 31:41, Isaiah... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Song of Solomon 5:2

Asleep - I was dull, and sluggish. But - Yet in my very sleep my thoughts were running upon my beloved. It is - Between sleeping and waking, I heard his voice. Knocketh - By his word, and providence, and spirit, at the door of my heart. Open - Inviting me to let him into my soul. My love - This heap of kind compellations signifies Christ's fervent affection to his people. With dew - While I wait without thy door, which signifies his sufferings for the church's good. The drops - The dew which... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 5:2

2. The Beloved now disappears. A great German poet has said, that next to love’s joys are love’s anxieties. The play of poetry which must always keep time with nature demands the relief which the darker emotions of regret convey. The Enamoured tells of a dream, made of such “stuff” as the course of love develops, a bit of peevishness and remorse. In the mystery of sleep and dreams, the partition between the affairs of actual life and the wild, free movement of uncurbed fancy, is thin, and... read more

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