9My 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.
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Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; …
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)The church is here pleasing herself exceedingly with the thoughts of her further communion with Christ after she has recovered from her fainting fit. I. She rejoices in his approach, Song 2:8. 1. She hears him speak: “It is the voice of my beloved , calling me to tell me he is coming.” Like one of his own sheep, she knows his voice before she sees him, and can easily distinguish it from the voice…
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