15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
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And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. …
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-17)Here is, I. The encouraging invitation which Christ gives to the church, and every believing soul, to come into communion with him, Song 2:14. 1. His love is now his dove ; David had called the church God’s turtle-dove (Ps. 74:19), and so she is here called; a dove for beauty, her wings covered with silver (Ps. 68:13), for innocence and inoffensiveness; a gracious spirit is a dove-like spirit, har…
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