2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. …
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. …
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-6)The spouse, in this dramatic poem, is here first introduced addressing herself to the bridegroom and then to the daughters of Jerusalem. I. To the bridegroom, not giving him any name or title, but beginning abruptly: Let him kiss me ; like Mary Magdalen to the supposed gardener (John 20:15), If thou have borne him hence , meaning Christ, but not naming him. The heart has been before taken up with…
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