Song Of Solomon 2:9
My lbeloved is like a roe or a young *hart: behold, mhe standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, 6shewing himself through the lattice.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
l:
Song Of Solomon 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Song Of Solomon 8:14 ¶Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
*:
hart-deer.
m:
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Luke 24:35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
6:
Heb. flourishing.
either,
1. In loveliness. Or rather,
2. In swiftness, by comparing this verse with the former. The swiftness of roes is noted 2Sa 2:18 1Ch 12:8. He is coming to me with all speed, and will not tarry a moment beyond the appointed and proper season.
and whilst he doth for wise and just reasons forbear to come, he is not far from us. Though he be not yet come into the door of our house, yet he stands behind the wall of our house, and is always at hand, to give me that succour and comfort which I do or may need or desire. Both this and the following phrases seem to note the obscure and imperfect manner and degree of Christ’s manifesting himself to his people, either,
1. Under the law, in comparison of his discoveries in the gospel. Or,
2. In this life, in comparison of what he will do in the future life.
from his high and heavenly palace, towards me, to watch over me, and refresh me with the prospect of his favour.
this phrase, and that,
intimate that the church doth indeed see Christ, but, as through a glass, darkly, as it is said even of gospel revelations, 1Co 13:12, and was much more true of legal administrations.