
Text -- The Song of Songs 5:6 (NET)




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Wesley: Sos 5:6 - -- drawn - Denied me his comfortable presence, as a just punishment for my former neglect.
drawn - Denied me his comfortable presence, as a just punishment for my former neglect.

Wesley: Sos 5:6 - -- Heb. went out of me: I fainted and was ready to die away, for those endearing expressions related, Son 5:2, which then I did not heed.
Heb. went out of me: I fainted and was ready to die away, for those endearing expressions related, Son 5:2, which then I did not heed.

By diligent enquiry and importunate prayer.
JFB: Sos 5:6 - -- He knocked when she was sleeping; for to have left her then would have ended in the death sleep; He withdraws now that she is roused, as she needs cor...

JFB: Sos 5:6 - -- Rather, "because of His speaking"; at the remembrance of His tender words (Job 29:2-3; Psa 27:13; Psa 142:7), or till He should speak.
Rather, "because of His speaking"; at the remembrance of His tender words (Job 29:2-3; Psa 27:13; Psa 142:7), or till He should speak.

JFB: Sos 5:6 - -- (Job 23:3-9; Job 30:20; Job 34:29; Lam 3:44). Weak faith receives immediate comfort (Luk 8:44, Luk 8:47-48); strong faith is tried with delay (Mat 15...
(Job 23:3-9; Job 30:20; Job 34:29; Lam 3:44). Weak faith receives immediate comfort (Luk 8:44, Luk 8:47-48); strong faith is tried with delay (Mat 15:22-23).
TSK -> Sos 5:6
TSK: Sos 5:6 - -- but my : Psa 30:7; Isa 8:17, Isa 12:1, Isa 50:2, Isa 54:6-8; Hos 5:6, Hos 5:15; Mat 15:22-28; Rev 3:19
my soul : Son 5:2, Son 5:4; Gen 42:28; 2Sa 16:1...
but my : Psa 30:7; Isa 8:17, Isa 12:1, Isa 50:2, Isa 54:6-8; Hos 5:6, Hos 5:15; Mat 15:22-28; Rev 3:19
my soul : Son 5:2, Son 5:4; Gen 42:28; 2Sa 16:10; Psa 69:3, Psa 77:3; Isa 57:16; Mat 26:75; Mar 14:72; Luk 22:61, Luk 22:62
I sought : Son 3:1, Son 3:2; 1Sa 28:6; Psa 22:1, Psa 22:2, Psa 28:1, Psa 80:4, Psa 88:9-14; Isa 58:2-4, Isa 58:7-9; Lam 3:8; Zec 7:13

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Poole -> Sos 5:6
Poole: Sos 5:6 - -- Withdrawn himself denied me his gracious and comfortable presence, as a just punishment for my former neglect and folly.
And was gone either she re...
Withdrawn himself denied me his gracious and comfortable presence, as a just punishment for my former neglect and folly.
And was gone either she repeats the same thing to show how deeply she was affected with it; or this is added to imply that he had not only stepped aside, but was quite gone away.
My soul failed Heb. went out of me . I fainted and was ready to die away through excessive passion, as this phrase is used, Gen 35:18 42:28 , and elsewhere.
When he spake or, for what he spoke; for those endearing expressions related Son 5:2 , which then I did not heed, but this sad occasion brings them to my remembrance; as ofttimes that word which is ineffectual when it is preached, is afterwards brought to a man’ s mind, and, produceth blessed effects.
I sought him by diligent inquiry and importunate prayer. He gave me no answer; that so he might both chastise her folly, and quicken her desires, and prepare the way for a more hearty welcome, and his longer abode with her.
PBC -> Sos 5:6
Gill -> Sos 5:6
Gill: Sos 5:6 - -- I opened to my beloved,.... Which was what he desired, and was done in virtue of his putting in his hand by the hole of the door; or by the exertion o...
I opened to my beloved,.... Which was what he desired, and was done in virtue of his putting in his hand by the hole of the door; or by the exertion of his efficacious grace, working in her both to will and to do, without which it would not have been done; namely, her heart dilated, the desires and affections of her soul enlarged towards Christ, and every grace drawn forth and exercised on him; and though the heart of a believer is sometimes shut to Christ, yet when it is opened, it is only patent to him; the church thought Christ was still at the door, and might be the more confirmed in it by what she found on the handles of the lock; but lo her mistake,
but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: a sad disappointment this! she expected to have seen him, and been received in his arms and embraced in his bosom; but instead of that, he was gone out of sight and hearing: this withdrawing was to chastise her for her former carriage, and to show her more the evil of her sin, and his resentment of it; to try the truth and strength of her grace to inflame her love the more, and sharpen her desires after his presence, to prize it more when she had it, and be careful not to lose it: her using two words of the same import, "he turned himself" h, and was gone, signifies that he was really gone, and not in her imagination only; and that he was gone suddenly, at an unawares, and, as she might fear, would never return; and these words being without a copulative, "had withdrawn himself, he was gone", show her haste in speaking, the confusion she was in, thee strength of her passion, the greatness of her disappointment and sorrow; it is as if she was represented wringing her hands and crying, He is gone, he is gone, he is gone;
my soul failed when he spake; or "went out" i; not out of her body, but she fell into a swoon, and was as one dead; for a while; and this was "at" or "through his word" k, as it may be rendered; through what he said when he turned about and departed, expressing his resentment at her behavior; or rather at the remembrance of his kind and tender language he used when he first called her to arise, "saying, open to me, my sister, my spouse", &c. Son 5:2; and when she called to mind how sadly she had slighted and neglected him, it cut her to the heart, and threw her into this fainting fit;
I sought him, but I could not find him; in the public ordinances of his house; See Gill on Son 3:2;
I called him, but he gave me no answer; called him by his name as she went along the streets and broad ways of the city, where she supposed he might be; praying aloud, and most earnestly and fervently, that he would return to her; but had no answer, at least not immediately, and thus be treated her in the same manner she had treated him; he had called to her and she disregarded him, and now she calls to him, and he takes no notice of her; but this was not in a way of vindictive wrath and punishment, as in Pro 1:24; but of chastisement and correction.

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TSK Synopsis -> Sos 5:1-16
TSK Synopsis: Sos 5:1-16 - --1 Christ awakes the church with his calling.2 The church having a taste of Christ's love, is sick of love.9 A description of Christ by his graces.
MHCC -> Sos 5:2-8
MHCC: Sos 5:2-8 - --Churches and believers, by carelessness and security, provoke Christ to withdraw. We ought to notice our spiritual slumbers and distempers. Christ kno...
Matthew Henry -> Sos 5:2-8
Matthew Henry: Sos 5:2-8 - -- In this song of loves and joys we have here a very melancholy scene; the spouse here speaks, not to her beloved (as before, for he has withdrawn), b...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Sos 5:6
Keil-Delitzsch: Sos 5:6 - --
6 I opened to my beloved;
And my beloved had withdrawn, was gone:
My soul departed when he spake -
I sought him, and found him not;
I called hi...
Constable: Sos 5:2--8:5 - --IV. THE MATURING PROCESS 5:2--8:4
In this last major section of the book the married love of Solomon and the Shu...

Constable: Sos 5:2--7:1 - --A. The Problem of Apathy 5:2-6:13
Sometime after the wedding the Shulammite failed to respond encouragin...
