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.
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. …
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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