Song of Songs 8
Treated in 15 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 8:6 Set me as a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death, its passion as relentless as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a mighty flame. 6
- 8:2 I would lead you and bring you into my mother's house, and she would teach me; I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates. 4
- 8:5 Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I woke you; there your mother was in labor with you; there she went into labor and gave you birth. 3
- 8:8 We have a young sister, and she has no breasts yet. What will we do for our sister when the day comes that she is asked for in marriage? 2
- 8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he leased the vineyard to tenants; each was to pay a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit. 2
- 8:3 His left arm is under my head, and his right arm holds me close. 1
- 8:7 Mighty waters cannot put out love, and rivers cannot wash it away. If a man offered all the wealth of his house for love, he would be laughed to scorn. 1
- 8:9 If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her; if she is a door, we will board her up with planks of cedar. 1
- 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; so in his eyes I became one who finds peace. 1
- 8:12 My own vineyard is mine to give. You, Solomon, may have the thousand, and those who tend its fruit two hundred. 1
- 8:13 You who sit in the gardens, friends are listening for your voice; let me hear it. 1
- 8:14 Hurry, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices. 1
Open Word Bible
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…
- 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…
- The Ten Commandments ·
4.5 The Lord's Supper cites Cant 8: 2
…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…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Man's Chief End cites Cant 8:2
…but a stream. It is superlative; we give God the best of our love, the cream of it. Cant 8:2. ‘I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.’ If the…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Death of the Righteous cites Cant 8:2
…the heavenly nectar and ambrosia, ‘the spiced wine, and the juice of the pomegranate.’ Cant 8:2. This royal supper of the Lamb will not only satisfy hunger, but prevent it. ‘They shall…
- Till He Come ·
Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Song viii. 3
…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…
- Communion with God ·
Other consequential affections cites Cant. viii. 5
…will stay until Christ come for to take it up, until it can come forth leaning upon him, Cant. viii. 5. The many instances of this that the book of Canticles affords us, we have in part spoken…
- Holiness ·
Christ Is All cites Cant. viii. 5
…true secret of coming up out of the wilderness is to come up “leaning on the Beloved.” (Cant. viii. 5.) The true way to be strong is to realize our weakness and to feel that Christ must be…
- All Things for Good ·
Of love to God cites Cant. viii. 6
…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…
- 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
…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…
- The Saint and His Saviour ·
Communion Preserved cites Cant. viii. 6
…of theologians, falls into a perfect ecstasy when touching on this subject. In expounding Cant. viii. 6, 7, he gives us the following glowing passage: “The intendment of what is so loftily set…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Faith cites Cant 8:8
…promise is the person of Christ: therefore the spouse is said to ‘lean upon her Beloved.’ Cant 8:8. Faith is described to be ‘believing on the name of the Son of God,’ I John 3:23, viz.…
- 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…