Song of Solomon 4:12-16

The Locked Garden of Delights Is Unlocked

12 A garden locked [is] my sister bride, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
13 Your shoots [are] an orchard of pomegranates with {choice fruit}, henna with nard;
14 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon spice with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes with all chief spices.
15 A garden fountain, a well of living water, flowing (streams) from Lebanon.
16 Awake, O north wind! Come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden! Let its fragrances waft forth! Let my beloved come to his garden, let him eat his choice fruit!

Song of Solomon 4:12-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 4

In this chapter is contained a large commendation of the church's beauty by Christ; first, more particularly, by an enumeration of several parts, as her eyes, hair, teeth, lips, temples, neck, and breasts, So 4:1-5; and more generally, So 4:7; And having observed where he himself was determined to go, he invites her to go with him; which he enforces, partly from the danger she was exposed unto where she was So 4:6,8; and partly from the comeliness of her person and graces in his esteem; with which he was ravished, and therefore was extremely desirous of her company, So 4:9-11; And then enters into some new descriptions of her; as a garden and orchard, as a spring and fountain, So 4:12-14; all which she makes to be owing to him, So 4:15; And the chapter is closed with an order from Christ to the winds to blow on his garden, and cause the spices of it to flow out; and with an invitation of the church to Christ, to come into his garden, and relax there, So 4:16.

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