Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Song of Solomon 6:11

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11. The bride's words; for she everywhere is the narrator, and often soliloquizes, which He never does. The first garden ( :- ) was that of spring, full of flowers and grapes not yet ripe; the second, autumn, with spices (which are always connected with the person of Jesus Christ), and nothing unripe ( :- , c.). The third here, of "nuts," from the previous autumn the end of winter, and verge of spring; the Church in the upper room ( Acts 1:13 , c.), when one dispensation was just closed, the other not yet begun the hard shell of the old needing to be broken, and its inner sweet kernel extracted [ORIGEN] ( Luke 24:27 ; Luke 24:32 ); waiting for the Holy Ghost to usher in spiritual spring. The walnut is meant, with a bitter outer husk, a hard shell, and sweet kernel. So the Word is distasteful to the careless; when awakened, the sinner finds the letter hard, until the Holy Ghost reveals the sweet inner spirit. fruits of the Valley —MAURER translates, "the blooming products of the river, " that is, the plants growing on the margin of the river flowing through the garden. She goes to watch the first sproutings of the various plants. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"

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