Adjure Adjured Arouse Awake Awaken Charge Daughters Desires Field Gazelles Hinds Jerusalem Love Moved O Please Pleases Ready Roes Stir Till Wake
3:5 {d} I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, till he please.
(d) Read Geneva So 2:7
3:1-5 It was hard to the Old Testament church to find Christ in the ceremonial law; the watchmen of that church gave little assistance to those who sought after him. The night is a time of coldness, darkness, and drowsiness, and of dim apprehensions concerning spiritual things. At first, when uneasy, some feeble efforts are made to obtain the comfort of communion with Christ. This proves in vain; the believer is then roused to increased diligence. The streets and broad-ways seem to imply the means of grace in which the Lord is to be sought. Application is made to those who watch for men's souls. Immediate satisfaction is not found. We must not rest in any means, but by faith apply directly to Christ. The holding of Christ, and not letting him go, denotes earnest cleaving to him. What prevails is a humble, ardent suing by prayer, with a lively exercise of faith on his promises. So long as the faith of believers keeps hold of Christ, he will not be offended at their earnest asking, yea, he is well pleased with it. The believer desires to make others acquainted with his Saviour. Wherever we find Christ, we must take him home with us to our houses, especially to our hearts; and we should call upon ourselves and each other, to beware of grieving our holy Comforter, and provoking the departure of the Beloved.
Adjure Adjured Arouse Awake Awaken Charge Daughters Desires Field Gazelles Hinds Jerusalem Love Moved Please Pleases Roes Stir Wake
Adjure Adjured Arouse Awake Awaken Charge Daughters Desires Field Gazelles Hinds Jerusalem Love Moved Please Pleases Roes Stir Wake
