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Cantique Des Cantiqu 8:4

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4 Je vous en conjure, filles de Jérusalem, Ne réveillez pas, ne réveillez pas l'amour, Avant qu'elle le veuille. -

Cantique Des Cantiqu 8:4 Meaning and Commentary

Song of Solomon 8:4

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up,
nor awake [my] love, until he please.
] The phrase, "by the roes [and] by the hinds of the field", used in ( Song of Solomon 2:7 ) ( 3:5 ) ; is here omitted; not as if the charge was less vehement and earnest here, for the form of expostulation seems rather to express more earnestness: for the words may be rendered, "why will ye", or "why should ye stir up, and why awake my love?" F9 being apprehensive they were about to do it; and which she dissuades from, as unreasonable and dangerous, and might be prejudicial to them as well as to her. The allusion is to virgins, that sung songs at marriages; one in the evening, lulling to sleep; and another in the morning, awaking and stirring up from it F11.


FOOTNOTES:

F9 (hm) , "cur", Montanus, Schmidt.
F11 Vid. Theocrit. Idyll. 18.
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Cantique Des Cantiqu 8:4 In-Context

2 Je veux te conduire, t'amener à la maison de ma mÚre; Tu me donneras tes instructions, Et je te ferai boire du vin parfumé, Du moût de mes grenades.
3 Que sa main gauche soit sous ma tĂȘte, Et que sa droite m'embrasse! -
4 Je vous en conjure, filles de Jérusalem, Ne réveillez pas, ne réveillez pas l'amour, Avant qu'elle le veuille. -
5 Qui est celle qui monte du désert, Appuyée sur son bien-aimé? -Je t'ai réveillée sous le pommier; Là ta mÚre t'a enfantée, C'est là qu'elle t'a enfantée, qu'elle t'a donné le jour. -
6 Mets-moi comme un sceau sur ton coeur, Comme un sceau sur ton bras; Car l'amour est fort comme la mort, La jalousie est inflexible comme le séjour des morts; Ses ardeurs sont des ardeurs de feu, Une flamme de l'Eternel.
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