“ A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. ”
The loveliness and purity of the bride are now set forth under the image of a paradise or garden fast barred against intruders, filled with rarest plants of excellent fragrance, and watered by abun...
(h) A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. (h) The Church confesses that all her glory and beauty comes from Christ who is the true fountain of all grace.
Song of Solomon 4:13 to Song of Solomon 5:1 . The Bride as a Garden. The charms of the bride are now described under the figure of the fruits of the garden. Song of Solomon 4:16 gives the g...
A fountain . [With]. fountain. fountain of gardens . a garden-fountain, without which no garden was complete. Let my beloved. The Shulamite speaks in response, with the eloquent brevity of her...
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
A fountain of gardens, &c.— Houbigant reads it, A living fountain, a fountain of living waters, flowing as it were from Lebanon.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters - "of." This pleasure-ground is not dependent on mere reservoirs; it h...
Description of her Charms. Her Invitation 1-7. This short poem belongs to the class which the Arabs call wasf, in which the bride's charms are described: they are sung while she is being dressed,...
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...
III. The Actual Betrothal ( Song of Solomon 3:6-11 ; Song of Solomon 4:1-15 ) 1. The Singer Song of Solomon 3:6-11 ). The Coming of Solomon. 2. Solomon Song of Solomon 4:1-15 ). The Proposal.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Here it should seem the Church takes up the discourse, and having heard her Lord thus enlarging upon the graces, which she w...
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Some c take these words to be the words of Christ continued, speaking still of his church, and explaining and enlarging upo...
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Ver. 15. A fountain of gardens, a well, &c. ] Or, O fountain of the gardens, &c. For they do best in mine opinion...
A well of living waters Though my spouse be in some sort a fountain shut up, yet that is not so to be understood as if she kept her waters to herself, for she is like a fountain of living or runnin...
The Love of the Church to Christ. 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. 16 Awa...
These are the words either, 1. Of the bride, who returns this answer to the Bridegroom. Thou callest me a fountain, but in truth thou only art that fountain from whence I derive all my streams of c...
The BRIDEGROOM now delights in the fact that his bride is his, and his alone. “A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Your shoots are an orchard of pomegran...
Notes Song of Solomon 4:9 . Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse: thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck . ‘Thou hast ravished my heart’ (לִב...
This is a chapter which is, perhaps, more adapted for private meditation than for rending in public. Nevertheless, as this is a communion season, and I trust that the most of us are partakers of the...
Song of Solomon 4:8 . Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse. This endearing appellative occurs here for the first time. This summerhouse of Solomon was built in the forest of Lebanon, and was inten...
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. The Church a garden Again and again the Church is represented as a garden, all up and down the Word of God, and it is a...
EXPOSITION Song of Solomon 4:1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are as doves behind thy veil; thine hair is as a flock of goats, that lie along the side of...
The Ravishing Love of the Church
Ecclesiastes 2:6 ; Jeremiah 17:13 ; Jeremiah 18:13 ; Jeremiah 18:14 ; Jeremiah 2:13 ; John 4:10 ; John 4:14 ; John 7:38 ; Psalms 36:8 ; Psalms 36:9 ; Psalms 46:4 ; Revelation 22:1 ; Song...
Living water — Though my spouse be in some sort a fountain shut up, yet that is not so to be understood as if she kept her waters to herself, for she is like a fountain of living or running water,...