Song of Solomon 4:12

10 How fair is your love,
My sister, my spouse!
^aHow much better than wine is your love,
And the¹ scent of your perfumes
Than all spices!

11 Your lips, O my spouse,
Drip as the honeycomb;
^aHoney and milk are under your tongue;
And the fragrance of your garments
Is ^blike the fragrance of Lebanon.

12 A garden¹ enclosed
Is my sister, my spouse,
A spring shut up,
A fountain sealed.

13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates
With pleasant fruits,
Fragrant henna with spikenard,

14 Spikenard and saffron,
Calamus and cinnamon,
With all trees of frankincense,
Myrrh and aloes,
With all the chief spices—

15 A fountain of gardens,
A well of ^aliving waters,
And streams from Lebanon.

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16 Awake, O north wind,
And come, O south!
Blow upon my garden,
That its spices may flow out.
^aLet my beloved come to his garden
And eat its pleasant ^bfruits.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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The Hebrew has no "is." Here she is distinct from the garden (Song of Solomon 5:1), yet identified with it (Song of Solomon 4:16) as being one with Him in His sufferings. Historically the Paradise, into which the soul of Jesus Christ entered at death; and the tomb of Joseph, in which His body was laid amid "myrrh," etc. (Song of Solomon 4:6), situated in a nicely kept garden (compare "gardener," John 20:15); "sealed" with a stone (Matthew 27:66); in which it resembles "wells" in the East (Genesis 29:3, Genesis 29:8). It was in a garden of light Adam fell; in a garden of darkness, Gethsemane, and chiefly that of the tomb, the second Adam retrieved us. Spiritually the garden is the gospel kingdom of heaven. Here all is ripe; previously (Song of Solomon 2:13) it was "the tender grape." The garden is His, though He calls the plants hers (Song of Solomon 4:13) by His gift (Isaiah 61:3, end).

spring . . . fountain—Jesus Christ (John 4:10) sealed, while He was in the sealed tomb: it poured forth its full tide on Pentecost (John 7:37-39). Still He is a sealed fountain until the Holy Ghost opens it to one (I Corinthians 12:3). The Church also is "a garden enclosed" (Psalms 4:3; Isaiah 5:1, etc.). Contrast Psalms 80:9-12. So "a spring" (Isaiah 27:3; Isaiah 58:11); "sealed" (Ephesians 4:30; II Timothy 2:19). As wives in the East are secluded from public gaze, so believers (Psalms 83:3; Colossians 3:3). Contrast the open streams which "pass away" (Job 6:15-18; II Peter 2:17).

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