Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Song of Solomon 4:12

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12. The Hebrew has no "is." Here she is distinct from the garden ( :- ), yet identified with it ( :- ) as being one with Him in His sufferings. Historically the Paradise, into which the soul of Jesus Christ entered at death; and the tomb of Joseph, in which His body was laid amid "myrrh," c. ( Song of Solomon 4:6 ), situated in a nicely kept garden (compare "gardener," Song of Solomon 4:6- : ) "sealed" with a stone ( Song of Solomon 4:6- : ); in which it resembles "wells" in the East ( Genesis 29:3 ; Genesis 29:8 ). It was in a garden of light Adam fell; in a garden of darkness, Gethsemane, and chiefly that of the tomb, the second Adam retrieved us. Spiritually the garden is the gospel kingdom of heaven. Here all is ripe; previously ( Song of Solomon 2:13 ) it was "the tender grape." The garden is His, though He calls the plants hers ( Song of Solomon 4:13 ) by His gift ( Isaiah 61:3 , end). spring . . . fountain —Jesus Christ ( John 4:10 ) sealed, while He was in the sealed tomb: it poured forth its full tide on Pentecost ( John 7:37-39 ). Still He is a sealed fountain until the Holy Ghost opens it to one ( John 7:37-43.7.39- : ). The Church also is "a garden enclosed" ( Psalms 4:3 ; Isaiah 5:1 , c.). Contrast Isaiah 5:1- : . So "a spring" ( Isaiah 27:3 Isaiah 58:11 ); "sealed" ( Ephesians 4:30 ; 2 Timothy 2:19 ). As wives in the East are secluded from public gaze, so believers ( Psalms 83:3 ; Colossians 3:3 ). Contrast the open streams which "pass away" ( Job 6:15-18 ; 2 Peter 2:17 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-13" class="com-number"

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