I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Ver. 9. I have compared thee, O my love, &c.] My pastoral love, or shepherdess companion, my fellow friend, or familiar associate in the function of spiritual feeding; my neighbour, or next, as the Greek renders it. For the saints are not only like unto Christ, 1Jn 3:2 but also next unto him, Luk 22:30 yea, one with him, Joh 17:21 and so above the most glorious angels, Heb 1:14 as being the spouse, the bride; whereas angels are only servants of the bridegroom: and as being the members of Christ, and so in a nearer union than any creature. This the devil and his angels stomached, and so fell from their first principality.
To a company of horses.] Or, To my troop of horses in the chariots of Pharaoh. The saddle horse his, the chariots Pharaoh's, saith an interpreter. "What is this, but that the spirit of strength and speed it is Christ's; and the untoward flesh, which is to be drawn by the same divine Spirit, it is of the world, and the very chariot of Satan. Soul and body, as wheels and axle, do run which way the devil drives, till the stronger man Jesus have freed our chariot nature from that power of hell, and joined himself by his own Spirit unto our nature, that so, with Ezekiel's chariot, it may go forth and return as his divine Spirit directeth." Thus he. a
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