Song of Solomon 8:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. ”

• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 elsewher...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (c) I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not, nor awake [my] love, until he please. (c) Read ( Song of Solomon 3:5 ).

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Song of Solomon 6:13 to Song of Solomon 8:4 . The Dancing Bride and the Rapture of Love. This section also is probably composed of different lyrics, though it is difficult to separate them; we h...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I charge you . I have adjured you. In this last charge the addition is not "by the roes", &c. And we have mah instead of. im . Why incite, &c. you . See note on Song of Solomon 2:7 ....

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, &c.— We have in this day's eclogue a further account of the love of Christ towards his church; as well as a description of the church's graces. The churc...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. I charge you ... nor awake (my) love until he please. This charge is that of restored Israel t...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  A Dialogue. Her Loveliness 10-13. A dialogue between these ladies and her. They compare her to the dawn, stooping down to look on the earth from the sky. It is still common in Arabic poems to addr...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I charge you. — See Note, Song of Solomon 2:6-7 .

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  MYSTICAL INTERPRETATIONS THUS 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,...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  C. The United Life ( Song of Solomon 7:10-13 ; Song of Solomon 8:1 ) I. The Bride ( Song of Solomon 7:10-13 ; Song of Solomon 8:1 ) Her Desire to Visit Her Home with Her Bridegroom. II. The Voice...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. (4) I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. These have been alre...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up , nor awake [my] love, until he please. The phrase, "by the roes [and] by the hinds of the field", used in Song of Solomon 2:7 ; is...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please. Ver. 4. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem. ] See Trapp on " Son 2:7 " Why should you s...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Love of the Church to Christ.       1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I sh...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This verse is here repeated again, from Song of Solomon 2:7 , Song of Solomon 3:5 , See Poole "2:7" , See Poole on " Song of Solomon 3:5 " .

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That you stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.” Once more the bride adjures the daughters of Jerusalem not to stir up her love until it please...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  SHULAMITE’S WISH Chap. Song of Solomon 8:1-4 O that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee, Yea, I should not be despise...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Song of Solomon 8:1 . Oh that thou wert as my brother. The Chaldaic is a metaphrase of the text. “In the time that king Messiah shall be revealed to the congregation of Israel, they shall say to h...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Song of Solomon 8:1-22 Oh that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; and none would despise me. I wo...

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Joys of the Heavenly Marriage. The Longing Cry of the Church

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• Song of Solomon 8:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Song of Solomon 2:7 ; Song of Solomon 3:5

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