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Song of Solomon 1:14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. He is not, I say again, one sprig or spray of camphire, but a cluster of it. The spouse, you see, multiplies figures to describe her Bridegroom, and even when she has done so, she cannot reach the height of his glory. “Nor earth, nor seas, nor sun, nor stars, Nor heaven,...

Song of Solomon 1:15

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes. So Christ speaks of his Church, she has the soft, mild, tender eyes of a dove. Besides, she has the discerning eye by which the dove can distinguish between carrion and fit food; and then she has a clear eye like that of the dove. You know that the dove, or pigeon, when...

Song of Solomon 1:16-17

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. We have the word “rafters” here, but it should be “galleries.” The “bed” expresses the near fellowship which Christ has with his people. The “house” is a larger expression, and perhaps denotes the whole Church; and the...

Song of Solomon 2:1-2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. So does Christ’s Church spring up singular for her beauty — as much different from the world — as much superior thereto as the lily to the thorns. Now see how she responds and answers to him.

Song of Solomon 2:1

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. So he is, and much more than that. “Nature, to make his beauties known, Must mingle colors quite unknown.” So rich is he—rose and lily both in one. “White is his soul, from blemish free, Red with the blood he shed for me.”

Song of Solomon 2:1-2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. It is the nature of love to make the thing beloved like itself. If Christ be a lily. he makes his people lilies too. Certainly he is the lily of the valley, and ere long his Church is able to say, “As the lily among the thorns, so am...

Song of Solomon 2:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. His church stands out like a fair lily in a thorn-brake—separate and distinct—often suffering, standing where she does not wish to be, but all the lovelier by contrast. But if Christ praises his church, she praises him again.

Song of Solomon 2:2

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. The child of God cannot long be mistaken for a worldling. The lily rises up above its thorny companions, but everybody knows that it is not a thorn; and chiefly do the quick eyes of the Lord Jesus discern his people wherever they may be found. You, dear friend, may perhaps come of a...

Song of Solomon 2:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood. so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was street to my taste. To him there is none like her; to her there is none like him. Jesus values his people. He paid his heart’s blood for their redemption, and “unto you that believe, he is precious.” No...

Song of Solomon 2:3-4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons, I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. So full of joy is she, that she can bear it no longer. She seems ready to faint with bliss.

Song of Solomon 2:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. The citron tree towered aloft in the midst of the forest, and it was covered with its golden apples. Such is Jesus Christ, the most lovely of all objects, and though there be some that pretend to contend with him, yet to the believer, rivals are left in the distance,...

Song of Solomon 2:3

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. You who love the Lord Jesus know what this verse means. He is a great variety of delights to you; — food for your soul, a shadow for your head in the day of the sun’s burning heat....

Song of Solomon 2:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. You and I know what this means — at least, many here do. You know how delightful it is to feel that it is not the banner of war now, but the banner of love, that waves above your head, for all is peace between you and your God. And now you are not brought to the prison-house...

Song of Solomon 2:4-5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. A strange thing is this love of Christ, for, as Erskine puts it: — “When well, it makes me sick; When sick, it makes me well.” There is no infirmity which this love of Christ cannot cure, no conflicting...

Song of Solomon 2:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

He brought me to the banqueting house, That, I trust, he will again do, as he has often done before, both while we are hearing his Word and when we approach his table: “He brought me to the banqueting house,” — Son_2:4. And his banner over me was love. Not the fiery ensign of war, but the peaceful banner of love. You have had enough of the world,...

Song of Solomon 2:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. The love of Christ shed abroad in our heart sometimes quite overpowers us. It is very possible to be so delighted, so full of joy with a sense of the love of Jesus, that one feels unable to bear any more of it. Oh, for more of this blessed sickness! “It is a strange thing,” says...

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