Song Of Solomon 2:5
g*Stay me with flagons, 4comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
g:
Hebrews 12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Isaiah 35:3 ¶Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Psalms 116:7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Psalms 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalms 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
Psalms 119:81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Song Of Solomon 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
2 Samuel 7:20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
Luke 24:32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
*:
Stay-sustain.
4:
Heb. straw me with apples.
or, support me; keep me from sinking or fainting. The spouse speaks this to her bridemaids, the daughters of Jerusalem, as it is expressed, Son 2:7, or to the servants or friends of the Bridegroom there waiting, and to the Bridegroom himself; as a person ready to faint cries to any or all that are near to him or her for help.
with wine, which is a good cordial, Psa 104:15 Pro 31:6,7, and which was there present, Son 2:4. Flagons are here, and 1Ch 16:3, put for flagons of wine, as it is fully expressed, Hos 3:1, or for the wine contained in them, as the cup is put for wine, Luk 22:20, by a common metonymy.
with odoriferous apples, such as pomegranates, or the like, the smell whereof was grateful and useful to persons ready to faint. By these metaphors understand the application of the promises, and the comfortable and quickening influences of the Spirit.
either,
1. With transports of joy, which sometimes causes a fainting of the spirits, as Gen 45:26 1Ki 10:5. Or,
2. With grief for his departure from her, of which we read Son 3:1,2, or for fear of it. Or rather,
3. With ardent desire of a stricter union, and clearer discoveries of his love, and perfect and uninterrupted communion with him in glory. That sickness is sometimes the effect of love hath been oft observed by physicians.