13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
Song of Solomon 7:13 —
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Matthew Henry
(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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