“ Stay me with flagons, comfortc me with apples: for I am sick of love. ”
The bride’s answer: “As the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild wood, so my beloved his associates and friends etc.” תפוח tappûach may in early Hebrew have b...
Mutual Praise and Praise of Love. The bride sets herself forth as the Rose ( meadow saffron or crocus ) of Sharon (or the plain ) and the Lily ( scarlet anemone? ) of the valley. To this the lov...
Stay . Strengthen, flagons . grape-cakes. comfort . refresh. of . with.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. Stay me with flagons - I believe the original words mean some kind of cordials with which we are unacquainted. The versions in g...
Stay me with flagons— Instead of stay, we might render the word support; and as flagons would be a very improper support on this occasion, and likewise seem to carry with them a very low idea...
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. Flagons. Maurer prefers the translation ( 'ªshiyshowt ( H809 )) 'dried raisin cakes,' from the Hebrew root ['eeysh] fi...
The Ardent Affection of the Lovers 2-7. Songs of the bride: her enquiry and his answers.
Flagons. — Heb., ashishôth, apparently a dried cake, but of what substance is uncertain. From the margin of Hosea 3:1 , possibly “grape cakes.” In 2 Samuel 6:19 it occurs as one of the gifts d...
TRUE LOVE TESTED Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ; Song of Solomon 2:1-17 ; Song of Solomon 3:1-11 ; Song of Solomon 4:1-16 ; Song of Solomon 5:1 THE poem opens with a scene in Solomon's palace. A co...
No Book has been provocative of more controversy than this. The question at issue is as to its place and value in Holy Scripture. While there are different varieties of each, the interpretations may...
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. There is a great degree of earnestness in these expressions, which evidently shows the mind of the church to be going forth, upon...
Stay me with flagons ,.... Of wine, which is a supporter of the animal spirits w. The church was now in a house of wine, where was plenty of it; even of the love of Christ, compared to wine, and pre...
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick of love. Ver. 5. Stay me with flagons. ] Not with cups or bowls only, but with flagons, larger measures of that wine that was set be...
He brought me to the banqueting-house The places in which believers received the graces and blessings of Christ. His banner over me By the lifting up whereof I was invited to come to him, and to...
The Love of the Church to Christ. 3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I...
Stay me; or, support me ; keep me from sinking or fainting. The spouse speaks this to her bridemaids, the daughters of Jerusalem , as it is expressed, Song of Solomon 2:7 , or to the servants...
“As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting...
Notes Song of Solomon 2:4 : His banner over me was love . ‘His banner,’ דִּגְלוֹ ( diglo ), from דֶּגֶל ( degel ), a military standard. The SEPTUAGINT and VULGATE read the word as a verb; the f...
Song of Solomon 2:5 I. Looking at an apple from a morphological point of view, we find that it is an arrested branch. Instead of going on to develop more wood and foliage, a branch terminates in a...
We believe that this song sets forth the mutual love of Christ and his believing people. It is a book of deep mystery, not to be understood except by the initiated; but those who have learnt a life o...
Song of Solomon 2:1 . Sharon was a fertile district not far from Nazareth. 1 Chronicles 27:29 ; Isaiah 33:9 ; Isaiah 65:10 . Song of Solomon 2:6 . His left hand is under my head, conferring...
Comfort me with apples. An apple The term “apple” is a conventional one. By the ancients it was applied indiscriminately to every round fleshy fruit. We require to take into account this extend...
EXPOSITION Song of Solomon 2:2 As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. The king responds, taking up the lovely simile and giving it a very apt and charming turn, "My lo...
The Mutual Love of Christ and the Church. The Bride Protests the Fervor of her Love
2 Samuel 13:1 ; 2 Samuel 13:2 ; 2 Samuel 6:19 ; Hosea 3:1 ; Isaiah 26:8 ; Isaiah 26:9 ; Luke 24:32 ; Philippians 1:23 ; Psalms 119:130 ; Psalms 119:131 ; Psalms 4:6 ; Psalms 4:7 ; Psalms...
Stay me — Or, support me, keep me from fainting. The spouse speaks this to her bride — maids, the daughters of Jerusalem: or to the bridegroom himself. Flaggons — With wine, which is a good cordial...