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[1] {so is}
How poor are the similes of the bride as compared with those of the
Bridegroom. To Him she is a "lily among \\thorns\\; she can only say
that He is "as the apple tree among the trees of the wood."
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[2] {our wall}
"Our wall." The bride had returned to her own home: the Bridegroom seeks
her.
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[3] {dove}
There is beautiful order here. First we have what the bride is as seen
in Christ, "My dove." In herself most faulty; in Him "blameless and
harmless"
# Php 2:15
the very character of the dove. The bride's place of \\safety\\,
"in the clefts of the rock"--hidden, so to speak, in the wounds
of Christ. Thirdly, her \\privilege.\\ "Stairs" speaks of
access. It is not "secret places," as in A.V., but "the secret of the
stairs"--the way and privilege of access to His presence
# Eph 2:18 Col 3:1 Heb 10:19-22
Fourthly, the order of approach: she is to come near
before she speaks, "Let me see thy countenance," then "Let me hear thy
voice." Lastly, now that she is near and has spoken, He speaks a tender
word of admonition: "Take us the foxes," etc.
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[1] {sister]
The word "sister" here is of infinitely delicate significance, intimating
the very whiteness of purity in the midst of an ardour which is, like the
shekinah, aglow but unspeakably holy. Sin has almost deprived us of the
capacity even to stand with unshod feet before this burning bush.