Song Of Solomon

Song Of Solomon 8 ©

1 The love of the church to Christ. 6 The vehemency of love. 8 The calling of the Gentiles. 14 The church prayeth for Christ's coming.

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O THAT athou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee *without, bI would kiss thee; yea, 1I should not be despised.

a Is. 7.14; 9.6; 4.2. He. 2.11,12,14. Jn. 1.14; 2.11.
b Ps. 2.12. Jn. 9.12,28; 7.48,52. 1Co. 1.23,24.
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I would clead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: dI would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my epomegranate.

c ch. 3.4. Ga. 4.26.
d Pr. 9.2,5. ch. 7.9,12; 4.10; 5.1.
e ch. 4.3.
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His fleft hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

f ch. 2.6. De. 33.27. 2Co. 12.9. Zep. 3.17. Is. 62.4,5.
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gI charge you, hO daughters of Jerusalem, 2that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

g ch. 2.7; 3.5.
h ch. 1.5.
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iWho is this that 3cometh up jfrom the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? kI raised thee up under the apple tree: there lthy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

i ch. 3.6; 6.10.
j ch. 2.10; 4.8. 1Jn. 5.4. Ps. 45.10,11. Col. 3.1,5.
k ch. 2.3. Ho. 12.4.
l ch. 3.11. Mat. 12.50. Ga. 4.19. Col. 1.27.
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mSet me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: nfor love is strong as death; jealousy is 4cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

m Is. 49.16. Je. 22.24. Hag. 2.23. 2Ti. 2.19.
n Jn. 21.17. Phi. 3.8,9. Ps. 73.25; 13.1-4; 42.1; 63.1; 84.2. Is. 26.8,9. Pr. 6.34,35. Ro. 8.35.
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oMany waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: pif a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be *contemned.

o Ps. 32.6; 18.4; 69.1,2. Is. 8.7. Mat. 7.27.
p Pr. 6.35. Ps. 73.25. Phi. 3.7-9. 2Co. 5.14.
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¶We have qa little sister, and rshe hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day swhen she shall be *spoken for?

q Eze. 23.33. Ge. 49.10. Ps. 22.27; 2.8. Ep. 2.12; 4.17.
r Eze. 16.7.
s Is. 11.10; 49.6,12; 54.5; 60.3,5,10,11. Ac. 11.19-23.
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tIf she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and uif she be a door, we will *inclose her with boards of cedar.

t Mat. 16.18. Ep. 2.22. Re. 21.12,14,19.
u Ac. 14.27. 1Co. 16.9. Re. 3.8. ch. 1.10,11.
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I am va wall, and my breasts like wtowers: then was I in his eyes as one that found 5favour.

v Col. 2.7. ch. 7.3,7. Jude 20,21. Eze. 16.7.
w ch. 5.13.
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xSolomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

x Is. 5.1,7. Mat. 20.1-7; 21.33-43; 25.14-30. He. 13.17. Ec. 2.4.
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My yvineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, zO Solomon, must have a thousand, and athose that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

a 1Ti. 5.17. 1Th. 2.19,20.
y ch. 1.6. Ps. 119.9,11. Pr. 4.23. 1Ti. 4.16. Ac. 20.28.
z Ro. 14.8. 2Co. 5.15. Ps. 72.17-19. Is. 53.12.
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bThou that dwellest in the gardens, cthe companions hearken to thy voice: dcause me to hear it.

b ch. 2.12,13; 4.12-14; 6.2,11; 7.11,12.
c ch. 1.5,6; 2.7; 3.7-11; 5.8-16.
d ch. 2.14. Ps. 50.15.
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6Make haste, my beloved, and ebe thou like to a roe or to a young *hart upon the mountains of spices.

e ch. 2.9,17.