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Text -- The Song of Songs 3:4 (NET)

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3:4 Scarcely had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him tightly and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother’s house, to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Sos 3:4 - -- Christ met me, and manifested his love to me.

Christ met me, and manifested his love to me.

Wesley: Sos 3:4 - -- As the spouse here, signifies particular believers, so her mother is the universal church, or the true Jerusalem, which hath its rise from above, whic...

As the spouse here, signifies particular believers, so her mother is the universal church, or the true Jerusalem, which hath its rise from above, which is the mother of us all, Gal 4:26, in which Christ and believers are united, and have sweet communion together in holy ordinances, into which believers are said to bring Christ, by faith and prayer.

Wesley: Sos 3:4 - -- Christ is as it were the father that begets, and the church the mother that conceives and brings forth believers.

Christ is as it were the father that begets, and the church the mother that conceives and brings forth believers.

JFB: Sos 3:4 - -- Jesus Christ is generally "found" near the watchmen and means of grace; but they are not Himself; the star that points to Beth-lehem is not the Sun th...

Jesus Christ is generally "found" near the watchmen and means of grace; but they are not Himself; the star that points to Beth-lehem is not the Sun that has risen there; she hastens past the guideposts to the goal [MOODY STUART]. Not even angels could satisfy Mary, instead of Jesus Christ (Joh 20:11-16).

JFB: Sos 3:4 - -- (Isa 45:19; Hos 6:1-3; Mat 13:44-46).

JFB: Sos 3:4 - -- Willing to be held; not willing, if not held (Gen 32:26; Mat 28:9; Luk 24:28-29; Rev 3:11). "As a little weeping child will hold its mother fast, not ...

Willing to be held; not willing, if not held (Gen 32:26; Mat 28:9; Luk 24:28-29; Rev 3:11). "As a little weeping child will hold its mother fast, not because it is stronger than she, but because her bowels constrain her not to leave it; so Jesus Christ yearning over the believer cannot go, because He will not" [DURHAM]. In Son 1:4 it is He who leads the bride into His chambers; here it is she who leads Him into her mother's. There are times when the grace of Jesus Christ seems to draw us to Him; and others, when we with strong cries draw Him to us and ours. In the East one large apartment often serves for the whole family; so the bride here speaks of her mother's apartment and her own together. The mention of the "mother" excludes impropriety, and imparts the idea of heavenly love, pure as a sister's, while ardent as a bride's; hence the frequent title, "my sister--spouse." Our mother after the Spirit, is the Church, the new Jerusalem (Joh 3:5-8; Gal 4:19, Gal 4:26); for her we ought to pray continually (Eph 3:14-19), also for the national Jerusalem (Isa 62:6-7; Rom 10:1), also for the human family, which is our mother and kindred after the flesh; these our mother's children have evilly treated us (Son 1:6); but, like our Father, we are to return good for evil (Mat 5:44-45), and so bring Jesus Christ home to them (1Pe 2:12).

Clarke: Sos 3:4 - -- Into my mother’ s house - The women in the East have all separate apartments, into which no person ever attempts to enter except the husband. W...

Into my mother’ s house - The women in the East have all separate apartments, into which no person ever attempts to enter except the husband. We find Isaac bringing Rebecca into his mother’ s tent, when he made her his wife, Gen 24:67. What is here related appears to refer to the third night of the nuptials.

TSK: Sos 3:4 - -- but : Son 6:12; Pro 8:17; Isa 45:19, Isa 55:6, Isa 55:7; Jer 29:13; Lam 3:25; Mat 7:7 I held : Son 7:5; Gen 32:26; Pro 4:13; Hos 12:3, Hos 12:4; Mat 2...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Sos 3:4 - -- I held him - This begins the fourth stanza. The bride’ s mother is mentioned again in Son 6:9; Son 8:2.

I held him - This begins the fourth stanza. The bride’ s mother is mentioned again in Son 6:9; Son 8:2.

Poole: Sos 3:4 - -- I found him Christ met me, and manifested his love to me, according to his promise made to those that seek him constantly and diligently, Pro 8:17 Ma...

I found him Christ met me, and manifested his love to me, according to his promise made to those that seek him constantly and diligently, Pro 8:17 Mat 7:7 , &c.

I held him, and would not let him go being taught by my late experience how doleful a thing it was to lose him, and how hard it was to find and recover him when he was lost.

Until I had brought him into my mother’ s house that there I might entertain and embrace him, and gain my mother’ s consent, and so proceed to the consummation of the marriage. She saith her

mother’ s rather than her father’ s house, because the men and the women had several and separated apartments in the house. For the mystical meaning, which is the principal sense intended in this book, as the spouse here, and in many other places of this book, signifies particular believers, so her mother is the universal church, or the true Jerusalem, which hath its rise from above, which is the mother of us all , Gal 4:26 , in which Christ and believers are united, and have sweet communion together in holy ordinances, into which believers are said to bring Christ by faith and prayer, and the preparation of their hearts for him, whereby they invite and in some sort engage Christ to go with them into the public assemblies, and there to give them his loves, although otherwise it is Christ who properly brings believers into the church. But all particulars in allegorical scriptures are not to be strictly urged, as all learned interpreters agree, many being added only for the decency of the allegory.

Her that conceived me Christ is as it were the father that begets, and the church the mother that conceiveth and bringeth forth, believers.

Haydock: Sos 3:4 - -- Me. She was perhaps dead. Women had separate apartments, to which none but the husband could have access, Genesis xxiv. 28. At the end of the marr...

Me. She was perhaps dead. Women had separate apartments, to which none but the husband could have access, Genesis xxiv. 28. At the end of the marriage-feast, the bride was conducted to her husband's house, Matthew xxv. 1. (Calmet) ---

The Jews shall in the end acknowledge Christ, (Worthington) as the Church desires. (Menochius)

Gill: Sos 3:4 - -- It was but a little that I passed from them,.... Either a small moment of time, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; or a little distance of place, that is, ...

It was but a little that I passed from them,.... Either a small moment of time, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; or a little distance of place, that is, from the watchmen or ministers, from whom she passed; not through disrespect to them, much less contempt of them; nor because she received no benefit at all from them; but her going on shows she did not rest in means, but looked beyond them, and went on further in the exercise of her faith, and hope of finding her beloved: and meeting with him a little after she had passed from the ministers suggests that Christ is not far from his ministers and ordinances; for it follows,

but I found him whom my soul loveth; which she expresses with the utmost exultation and pleasure, which meeting with him must give her, after such long and fruitless searches, and so many disappointments; see Joh 1:41; and for Christ to show himself, without which there is no finding him, is a proof of the greatness of his love, and of the freeness and sovereignty of it; and that means, though to be used, are not to be depended on; nor should we be discouraged when they fail, since Christ can make himself known without them, as he did here to the church; who says,

I held him, and would not let him go; which on the part of the church is expressive of her faith in him, signified by laying hold on him, his person, righteousness, grace, and strength, Pro 3:18; and of her strong affection to him, grasping and embracing him in her arms of faith and love; and of her fear and jealousy lest he should depart from her again; and of her steady resolution to hold him, whatever was the consequence of it: and, on his part, it intimates a seeming offer to be gone; and a gracious allowance to lay hold on him; and his wonderful condescension to be held by her; and the delight and pleasure he took in the exercise of her faith upon him; for it was not against but with his will he was held by her; and this she determined to do, and not let go her hold,

until, says she,

I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chambers of her that conceived me; the allusion is to the tents and apartments women had in former times, distinct from their husbands, Gen 24:67; and all this may be understood either of the visible church, and the ordinances of it, the mother of all true believers, where they are born again, brought up and nourished; and where Christ may be said to be brought, when his name is professed, his Gospel is embraced, and his ordinances are submitted to; and here the church is desirous of introducing Christ, that she with others might magnify him, and praise him for all the instances of his grace and goodness, and have communion with him: or else the heart, and the inmost recesses of it, may be meant; where the incorruptible seed of divine grace is cast; where the new creature; conceived, born, and brought up, until it becomes a perfect man; and where Christ is desired to be, and to dwell by faith, and saints may have uninterrupted communion with him: unless the heavenly mansions are intended, the house of the Jerusalem above, the mother of us all; where saints long to be with Christ, enjoy him, and never lose his presence more; till then the church resolves to hold him fast in the arms of faith, hope, and love, and not let him go.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Sos 3:4 The term חֶדֶר (kheder, “chamber”) literally means “dark room” (HALOT s.v. חֶד...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Sos 3:1-11 - --1 The church's fight and victory in temptation.6 The church glories in Christ.

MHCC: Sos 3:1-5 - --It was hard to the Old Testament church to find Christ in the ceremonial law; the watchmen of that church gave little assistance to those who sought a...

Matthew Henry: Sos 3:1-5 - -- God is not wont to say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain; and yet here we have the spouse for a great while seeking her beloved in vain, b...

Keil-Delitzsch: Sos 3:4 - -- 4 Scarcely had I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth. I seized him, and did not let him go Until I brought him into the house ...

Constable: Sos 1:2--3:6 - --II. THE COURTSHIP 1:2--3:5 Perhaps the outstanding characteristic of this first major section of the book is the...

Constable: Sos 3:1-5 - --3. The pain of separation 3:1-5 Another incident unfolds in this pericope (vv. 1-4) and conclude...

Constable: Sos 3:1-4 - --The Shulammite's nightmare 3:1-4 The Shulammite narrated an experience she had had "on h...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: The Song of Songs (Book Introduction) The Song of Solomon, called in the Vulgate and Septuagint, "The Song of Songs," from the opening words. This title denotes its superior excellence, ac...

TSK: The Song of Songs 3 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Son 3:1, The church’s fight and victory in temptation; Son 3:6, The church glories in Christ.

Poole: The Song of Songs 3 (Chapter Introduction) OF SOLOMON CHAPTER 3 The church seeking Christ, Son 3:1-3 . Her great joy; she findeth him, Son 3:4 . Her charge to the daughters of Jerusalem not ...

MHCC: The Song of Songs (Book Introduction) This book is a Divine allegory, which represents the love between Christ and his church of true believers, under figures taken from the relation and a...

MHCC: The Song of Songs 3 (Chapter Introduction) (Son 3:1-5) The trials of the church by the withdrawing of Christ. (Son 3:6-11) The excellences of the church, The care of Christ for her.

Matthew Henry: The Song of Songs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Song of Solomon All scripture, we are sure, is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable f...

Matthew Henry: The Song of Songs 3 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter, I. The church gives an account of a sore trial wherewith she was exercised through the withdrawing of her beloved from her, the p...

Constable: The Song of Songs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title In the Hebrew Bible the title of this book is "The Song of Songs." ...

Constable: The Song of Songs (Outline) Outline I. The superscription 1:1 II. The courtship 1:2-3:5 A. The begin...

Constable: The Song of Songs Song of Solomon Bibliography Baxter, J. Sidlow. Explore the Book. 6 vols. London: Marshall, Morgan, and Scott, ...

Haydock: The Song of Songs (Book Introduction) SOLOMON'S CANTICLE OF CANTICLES. INTRODUCTION. This book is called the Canticle of Canticles, that is to say, the most excellent of all cantic...

Gill: The Song of Songs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO THE SONG OF SOLOMON This book is entitled, in the Hebrew copies, "Shir Hashirim", the Song of Songs. The Septuagint and Vulgate Lat...

Gill: The Song of Songs 3 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 3 In this chapter an account is given of an adventure of the church, in quest of her beloved; of the time when, and...

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