![]() ![]() You have dove’s eyes behind your veil: The beloved not only gave a general statement of the maiden’s beauty ( Behold, you are fair!) he also told her specifically how she was beautiful to him. Therefore, O my love, I will sing back the song: thou hast sung it to thy beloved, and I will sing it to my beloved.’” (Spurgeon)Ĭ. All that thou canst say of me, I say it teach to thee I see myself in thy eyes, I can see my own beauty in thee and whatever belongs to me, belongs to thee. Thou sayest my love is better than wine, so is thine to me thou tellest me all my garments smell of myrrh, so do thine thou sayest my word is sweeter than honey to thy lips, so is thine to mine. Charles Spurgeon took this as an analogy of how Jesus speaks to and praises His people: “But to hear Christ turn round upon his Church, and seem to say to her ‘Thou hast praised me, I will praise thee thou thinkest much of me, I think quite as much of thee thou usest great expressions to me, I will use just the same to thee. Yet as always he was sensitive to her and careful to make her secure in his love.” (Glickman) Even the loveliest girl might feel insecure on this occasion. “How sensitive it was of the king to eloquently praise his bride on their wedding night. She had previously doubted her beauty ( Song of Solomon 1:5-6) yet he truthfully assured her (doubly so) that she was the most beautiful woman in the world to him. Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold you are fair: The beloved began not with aggressive or selfish actions, but with tender and confidence building words to his maiden. Jesus is affectionate to His own Bride after the same pattern.ī. Paul didn’t think only the young or pretty or submissive wives were due affection every wife is due affection because she is a wife of a Christian man. It is wrong for a husband to withhold affection from his wife and since Paul meant this to apply to every Christian marriage, it shows that every wife has affection due her. The Apostle Paul would later write, Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her ( 1 Corinthians 7:3). As he spoke, it was evident that the beloved was skilled at showing affection to his maiden. ![]() Now, the beloved groom was the first to speak and when he spoke he praised the beauty of his bride. ![]() The evening had come… it was an eloquent silence, the silence of anticipation of love fulfilled.” (Glickman). “It was now the night their courtship would end and their marriage begin. This section describes the first intimacy of the maiden and the beloved after the wedding and is given to us almost completely in the words of the beloved, who was preparing his maiden for their first experience of marital intimacy. Behold, you are fair, my love! Behold you are fair: We may fairly connect this snapshot with the one preceding it, which ended with the wedding procession and ceremony between the maiden and the beloved (Solomon). Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheepĪ. ( Song of Solomon 4:1-5) The beloved praises the appearance of the maiden. The beloved praises the appearance and character of the maiden.ġ. ![]()
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