Song of Songs 8
Treated in 9 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah. 5
- 8:2 I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother’s house, Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate. 2
- 8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard unto keepers; Every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver. 2
- 8:3 His left hand [should be] under my head, And his right hand should embrace me. 1
- 8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth. 1
- 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned. 1
- 8:8 We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the day when she shall be spoken for? 1
- 8:9 If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar. 1
- 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers [thereof] Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace. 1
- 8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. 1
- 8:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken for thy voice: Cause me to hear it. 1
- 8:14 Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a roe or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices. 1
American Standard Version
Where it is preached
- Union and Communion ·
Section VI cites Cant. viii. 5-14
Unrestrained Communion Cant. viii. 5-14. We have now reached the closing section of this book, which, as we have seen is a poem d…
- The Ten Commandments ·
1.2 Love cites Cant 8: 2
…, but God must have the cream. The spouse keeps the juice of her pomegranates for Christ. Cant 8: 2. (6) Our love to God must be constant, like the fire which the Vestal virgins kept in Rom…
- The Ten Commandments ·
4.5 The Lord's Supper cites Cant 8: 2
…or us? Love is the spiced wine and juice of the pomegranate which we must give to Christ. Cant 8: 2. Our love to this superior and blessed Jesus must exceed our love to other things; as the…
- Till He Come ·
Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Song viii. 3
…e could sing, “His left hand is under my head, and His right hand doth embrace me.” (Sol. Song viii. 3.) Then all earthly troubles were light as the chaff of the threshing-floor, and the pleas…
- All Things for Good ·
Of love to God cites Cant. viii. 6
…ng can conquer love, not any difficulties, or oppositions. “Love is strong as the grave” (Cant. viii. 6). The grave swallows up the strongest bodies: so love swallows up the strongest difficult…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.2 The Second Commandment cites Cant 8: 6
… your mother, plead; for she is not my wife.’ Hos 2: 2. ‘Jealousy is cruel as the grave.’ Cant 8: 6. As the grave devours men’s bodies, so God will devour image-worshippers. Use two. If God…
- All Things for Good ·
Why all things work for good cites Cant. viii. 6
…them upon the palms of His hands (Isa. xlix. 16). He sets them as a seal upon His breast (Cant. viii. 6). He will give kingdoms for their ransom (Isa. xliii. 3). This shows how near they lie to…
- The Bruised Reed ·
Christ's government is victorious cites Cant. viii. 6
…uch water cannot quench it, and therefore it is called a vehement flame, or flame of God, Cant. viii. 6, kindled in the heart by the Holy Ghost: that little that is in us is fed with an everlas…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Cant. 8:11
… 21:19, 33, 34, Luke 13:6, John 15:1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 1 Cor. 3:9, Heb. 6:7, 8, Isa. 5:1-8, Cant. 8:11, 12, Isa. 27:2, 3.7575 "To profess to know much, is easy; but to bring your affections in…