MAY
25, 2014
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Last night I dreamed I had insomnia. I woke up exhausted, yet
too well rested to go back to sleep. ~ Bob Ingman
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and
safely insane every night of our lives. ~ William Dement
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same
things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~ Rene Descartes
LONGING LOVE
(SONG OF SONGS 5:6-8)
6 “I opened to my beloved, But my beloved had turned
away and had gone! My heart
went out to him as he spoke. I
searched for him but I did not find him; I called him but he did not answer me.
7 “The watchmen who make the rounds in the city
found me, They struck me and
wounded me; The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.
8 “I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If you
find my beloved, As to what you will tell him: For I am lovesick." NASB
VERSE
6:
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In
verse 4 the word translated as extended (NASB) is a strong word meaning to put
away, push away, forsake, cast away, let depart.
“A sad disappointment this! she
expected to have seen him, and been received in his arms and embraced in his
bosom; but instead of that, he was gone out of sight and hearing: this withdrawing
was to chastise her for her former carriage,”
“’he turned himself’, and was gone,
signifies that he was really gone, and not in her imagination only; and that he
was gone suddenly, at an unawares, and, as she might fear, would never return;”
John
Gill’s Exposition of the Bible
“Inevitably,
with the passing of time and the growth of familiarity, a marriage will start
to lose its initial sparkle. Glances and touches no longer produce the same
emotional response. Conflicts and pressures may creep in, causing you to lose
your tenderness toward your spouse. The world is not a haven for lovers; in
fact, external stress often works against the marriage relationship. But you
and your spouse can learn to be a haven for each other. If intimacy and passion
decline, remember that they can be renewed and regenerated. Take time to
remember the commitment you made, those first thrills, the excitement of sex,
and your spouse's strengths. When you focus on the positives, reconciliation
and renewal can result.”
Life Application Study Bible Notes
VERSE
7:
“She had
before sought Him by night in the streets, under strong affection (Son 3:2-4), and so without rebuff from “the
watchmen,” found Him immediately; but now after sinful neglect, she encounters
pain and delay.”
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary
“These rough,
regardless men, - her story returns at the close like a palindrome to those
previously named, - who judge only according to that which is external, and
have neither an eye nor a heart for the sorrow of a loving soul, struck (הִכָה, from נָכַה, to pierce, hit,
strike) and wounded (פָּצַע, R.
פץ, to divide, to
inflict wounds in the flesh) the royal spouse as a common woman, and so treated
her, that, in order to escape being made a prisoner, she was constrained to
leave her upper robe in their hands (Gen
39:12).”
Kiel & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
"This
image symbolizes the pain she felt at being separated from her lover.”
Life Application Study Bible Notes
VERSE
8:
“The setting for this verse must come
at the end of the dream sequence, if it is still in progress, or early the next
morning when the woman re counted to them the whole story. Intensity of passion
is still the dominate theme, passion turned pathetic by its failure to find
release and fulfillment.”
The
Preacher’s Commentary
EXCLUSIVE LOVE
(SONG OF SONGS: 6:1-3)
1 “Where has your
beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, That
we may seek him with you?"
2 “My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the
beds of balsam, To pasture his flock
in the gardens And gather lilies.
3 “I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine, He who
pastures his flock among the
lilies." NASB
VERSE
1:
“In the dream
sequence, we suspect that the chorus is well aware of his location. It is only
the bride who needs to discover his whereabouts.”
Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Commentary
VERSE
2:
“On their
wedding night, the bride presented herself to Solomon as his garden. But he has
another “garden” to tend as well, and it is one in which he also takes great
pleasure. This is the “garden” of his work, his responsibility as the king of
Israel. The flock is the people; the lilies represent the produce of the land.
This realization leads to the strong affirmation in the next verse that the
husband and wife belong to each other. Another use of the word garden occurs in Son 6:11.”
Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Commentary
VERSE
3:
“The girl said that she and her lover
belonged to each other—they had given themselves to each other unreservedly. No
matter how close we may be to our parents or our best friends, only in marriage
can we realize complete union of mind, heart, and body.”
Life
Application Study Bible Notes
TRUE LOVE (SONG
OF SONGS: 8:4-7)
4 “I want you to
swear, O daughters of Jerusalem, Do not arouse or awaken my love Until she pleases."
5 “Who is this coming up from the wilderness Leaning
on her beloved?" "Beneath the
apple tree I awakened you; There your mother was in labor with you, There she
was in labor and gave you
birth.
6 “Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal
on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very
flame of the LORD.
7 “Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers
overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It
would be utterly despised." NASB
VERSE
4:
“That ye
stir not up - literally, as in the margin.
For ‘my love’ read as before love. The omission of ‘the roes and hinds’ here is
noticeable. Hebrew scholars regard this charge here and elsewhere Son 2:7; Son
3:5 as an admonition to Israel not to attempt obtaining a possession
of, or restoration to, the promised land, and union or reunion there with the
Holy One, before being inwardly prepared for it by the trials of the wilderness
and the exile. This interpretation comes very near to what appears to be the
genuine literal meaning (see Son
2:7 note). They suppose the words here to be addressed by Messiah to
Israel in ‘the wilderness of the people’ Eze
20:35, in the latter day, and the former words Son 3:5 by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai.”
Albert
Barnes’ a Notes on the Bible
“‘Why would ye stir up or awake love
until it should please?’ i.e. you see it was quite unnecessary to try to rouse
love before its time. Your experience must teach you how vain it has been to
attempt to arouse it prematurely, and how certain it would be to awake at the
proper time.”
The
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
VERSE
5:
“The country people, or the group of
her relatives, are supposed to be gazing at the pair of lovers, not coming in
royal state, but in the sweet simplicity of true affection, the bride leaning
with loving confidence on the arm of her husband, as they were seen before in
the time of their ‘first love.’”
The
Pulpit Commentary
“The language
is exquisitely simple and chaste, and yet so full of the tender affection of
the true lover. The spot where the first breathings of love came forth will
ever be dear in the remembrance of those whose affection remains faithful and
fond.”
The
Pulpit Commentary
VERSE
6:
“Love is here
regarded as an universal power, an elemental principle of all true being, alone
able to cope with the two eternal foes of God and man, Death and his kingdom.”
….
“’Jealousy’ is here another term for ‘love,’ expressing the
inexorable force and ardor of this affection, which can neither yield nor share
possession of its object, and is identified in the mind of the sacred writer
with divine or true life.”
Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
VERSE
7:
“Neither common nor uncommon
adversities, even of the most ruinous nature, can destroy love when it is pure;
and pure love is such that nothing can procure it.”
Adam
Clarke’s commentary on the Bible
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