{"id":17654,"date":"2022-09-24T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-song-of-solomon-83\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:07:24","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-song-of-solomon-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-song-of-solomon-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Song of Solomon 8:3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 3<\/strong>. The bride here repeats in other words what she has already spoken of in <span class='bible'><em> Son 8:1<\/em><\/span>, and losing herself in the anticipation of that which she had before regarded only as a possibility, she drops into the use of the third personal pronoun in her rapture, though she has been addressing her lover hitherto.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\">The bride now turns to and addresses the chorus as before (marginal reference).<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>3<\/span>. <I><B>His left hand<\/B><\/I>] See on <span class='bible'>So 2:6<\/span>.<\/P> <P> <\/P> <P> With the <I>fourth<\/I> verse the SIXTH <I>night<\/I> of the marriage week is supposed to end.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> The same expressions are used <span class='bible'>Son 2:6<\/span>. The sense is, He would not despise me for my forwardness in showing my affections to him, as men commonly do in like cases, but would kindly accept of my love, and return love for it. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>3, 4.<\/B> The &#8220;left and righthand,&#8221; c., occurred only once actually (<span class='bible'>So2:6<\/span>), and here optatively. Only at His first manifestation didthe Church palpably embrace Him at His second coming there shall beagain sensible communion with Him. The rest in <span class='bible'>So8:4<\/span>, which is a <I>spiritual<\/I> realization of the wish in <span class='bible'>So8:3<\/span> (<span class='bible'>1Pe 1:8<\/span>), and thecharge not to disturb it, close the first, second, and fourthcanticles; not the third, as the bridegroom there takes chargeHimself; nor the fifth, as, if <I>repose<\/I> formed its close, wemight mistake the present state for our rest. The broken, longingclose, like that of the whole Bible (<span class='bible'>Re22:20<\/span>), reminds us we are to be waiting for a Saviour to come. On&#8221;daughters of Jerusalem,&#8221; see on <span class='bible'>So7:10<\/span>. <\/P><P>     CANTICLEV. (<span class='bible'>So 8:5-14<\/span>) FROMTHE CALLOF THE GENTILES TO THECLOSE OF REVELATION.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.<\/strong> That is, when she should have the presence of Christ in her mother&#8217;s house. Or the words are a petition that so it might be, &#8220;let his left hand&#8221;, c. g or a declaration of what she did enjoy, &#8220;his left hand is under my head&#8221;, &amp;c. h,<\/p>\n<p> <span class='bible'>[See comments on So 2:6]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>g Tigurine version, Marckius, some in Michaelis. h Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Resigning herself now dreamily to the idea that Solomon is her brother, whom she may freely and openly kiss, and her teacher besides, with whom she may sit in confidential intercourse under her mother&#8217;s eye, she feels herself as if closely embraced by him, and calls from a distance to the daughters of Jerusalem not to disturb this her happy enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> 3 His left hand is under my head,<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> And his right doth embrace me:<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> 4 I adjure you, ye daughters of Jerusalem,<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> That ye awake not and disturb not love<\/p>\n<p style='margin-left:7.2em'> Till she please!<\/p>\n<p> Instead of   , &ldquo;underneath,&rdquo; there is here, as usual,  (cf. <em> <span class='bible'>Son 8:5<\/span><\/em>). Instead of  &#8230;  in the adjuration, there is here the equivalent  &#8230;  ; the interrogative  , which in the Arab. ma becomes negat., appears here, as at <span class='bible'>Job 31:1<\/span>, on the way toward this change of meaning. The <em> per capreas vel per cervas agri <\/em> is wanting, perhaps because the natural side of love is here broken, and the  strives up into  . The daughters of Jerusalem must not break in upon this holy love-festival, but leave it to its own course.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Keil &amp; Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 3<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> Turning to the Chorus she affirms that she needs no support at any time other than her Beloved can give.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. (4) I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> These have been already noticed, therefore I refer to them. <span class='bible'>Son 3:5<\/span><span class='bible'>Son 3:5<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Hawker&#8217;s Poor Man&#8217;s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Son 8:3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 3. <strong> His left hand should be under my head.<\/strong> ] Or, prayerwise, Let his left hand, &amp;c. Conscious and sensible of her own inability, she begs the benefit of both Christ&rsquo;s hands, and all little enough &#8211; his whole power and providence to support and relieve her. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo; <em> Una est in tenui mihi re medicina, Iehovae<\/p>\n<p> Cor patrium, os verax, omnipotensque manus. &rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>See Trapp on &#8220;<\/em> Son 2:6 <em> &#8220;<\/em> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>His left hand = [Let] his left hand [be]. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Son 2:6, Deu 33:27, Isa 62:4, Isa 62:5, 2Co 12:9 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Son 1:13 &#8211; he shall<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>8:3 {b} His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.<\/p>\n<p>(b) Read Son 2:6.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. 3. 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