Song of Songs 5:2

I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
American Standard Version

Treated in 5 passages across the library.

  1. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    When the heart is disquieted by sin, speak no peace to it until God speak it cites Cant. v. 2

    …hen his lips are opened to them and are full of grace. The spouse was in a sad condition, Cant. v. 2, — asleep in security; but yet as soon as Christ speaks, she cries, “It is the voice of m…

  2. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section IV cites Cant. v. 2

    Communion again Broken—Restoration Cant. v. 2-vi.10. The fourth section commences with an address of the bride to the daughters of Jeru…

  3. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The worst things work for good to the godly cites Cant. v. 2

    …tion cures the soul of sloth. We find the spouse fallen upon the bed of sloth: “I sleep” (Cant. v. 2). And presently Christ was gone. “My beloved had withdrawn himself” (Cant. v. 6). Who wil…

  4. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section VI cites Cant. v. 2

    …ship of service, fearless of dens of lions and mountains of leopards. The fourth section (Cant. v. 2-vi. 10), however, shows again failure; not as before through worldliness, but rather thro…

  5. The Bruised Reed · Richard Sibbes

    Grace is mingled with Corruption cites Cant. v. 2

    …gh Jesus Christ our Lord. I sleep, saith the Church in the Canticles, but my heart wakes, Cant. v. 2. In the seven Churches, which for their light are called seven golden candlesticks, Rev. …

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