3I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Here is, I. The enquiry which the daughters of Jerusalem made concerning Christ, Song 6:1. They still continue their high thoughts of the church, and call her, as before, the fairest among women ; for true sanctity is true beauty. And now they raise their thoughts higher concerning Christ: Whither has thy beloved gone, that we may seek him with thee ? This would be but an indecent, unacceptable, c…
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