10I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-13)These are the words of the spouse, the church, the believing soul, in answer to the kind expressions of Christ’s love in the foregoing verses. I. She here triumphs in her relation to Christ and her interest in him, and in his name will she boast all the day long. With what a transport of joy and holy exultation does she say (Song 7:10), “ I am my beloved’s , not my own, but entirely devoted to him…
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