10How 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!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. …
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)These are still the words of Christ to his church, expressing his great esteem of her and affection to her, the opinion he had of her beauty and excellency, the desire he had of, and the delight he had in, her converse and society. And so ought men to love their wives as Christ loves the church, and takes pleasure in it as if it were spotless and had no fault, when yet it is compassed with infirmi…
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