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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, And what is this but our faith? Does not the neck join the body to the head, and is not faith that connecting link by which we are united to Christ? Oh, for that faith which is like the tower of David builded for an armoury! It is sure to be assaulted, let it, therefore, be firmly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. The ordinances of God’s house are very delightful to Christ, and to his people too; and, consequently, that part of our spiritual being which seeks to feed others, and specially to nourish the young believer, is very precious in Christ’s esteem. When he has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. Our Beloved has gone away from us until the day of his reappearing, —until the night of his Church’s anxiety is over, and the Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings Jesus has gone from earth, but where is he?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. Drink that truth in, Christian. If ever there was a honeycomb full of virgin honey, it is here. Though in thyself thou art defiled, yet in the eye of Jesus, looked upon as covered with his righteousness, “thou art all fair;” nay, more, “there is no spot in thee.” Thou art as dear to him as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards. My heart, leave thou the world, leave its sweet places, though Lebanon be full of fragrance, leave it. Leave the world’s high places; though the top of Amana may seem...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou hast ravished my heart, — I think the Septuagint reads it, “Thou hast unhearted me,” as if Christ’s people had taken away his heart, so that it was all theirs, and not his any longer. “Thou hast ravished my heart,” — Son_4:9. My sister my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. The eye of love,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! Hearest thou that, O Spouse of Christ? Thy love is often very cold, and very feeble, and even at the best it is not what thou wouldst have it to be, nor what it ought to be; yet Jesus values it highly, and says, “How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! “ Son_4:10. How much better is thy love than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Oh, that my heart were like that at this moment! Jesus, shut the gates, and shut out the world, and every wandering, wayward,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: Oh, that this were fully true of us, — that all our thoughts, and words, and notions, which are like the fruits of the garden, were as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Such should the whole Church and each individual believer be. O my soul, be thou not only shut up for Christ, but be thou when the time comes, opened to do good to all the world! Oh, that I might be like a well of living waters in my speech at all times; and that you, my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. The Church here, you see, desires to feel two opposite winds. Though it should be the rough north wind of affliction that blows upon her, if it will but make her spices flow, she...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: “The great Husbandman has graciously let his vineyard out to me, that I may keep it, and dress it; he has made it mine for the time being. I have some ground...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. This is our resolve, — that our greater Solomon shall have the profits and proceeds of his own vineyard. It is ours on lease, but the freehold is his. He “must have a thousand,” and we shall be well content with our share of the vintage, joyful and glad that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. “For to hear that voice will be far better than the ‘two hundred’ which shall be my share of the fruit. If I may have thee with me, O my Lord, I will be better pleased, though my portion of fruit should be very small indeed, for in having thee my portion...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Make haste, my beloved, “Do not let me have to wait long for thee, O my Beloved! Even at the beginning of this service, cause me to realize thy presence.” Son_8:14. And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. “Are there mountains that divide me from thee? Come and leap over them; for thou art swift of foot, and sure...