Christ's visit to and continuance with believers connected with their love and obedience. Behold, you are fair! Do not arraign the Divine government if north winds blow, but keep well in mind the great fact that He is designing and evolving your good in all things so that you may attain the stature of a perfect man; and in the last day you shall be presented perfect, wanting nothing. Thou hast made me to be a flower, to shed abroad my perfume, yet I am not doing it. From him come both prayer and answer, both hunger and food, both desire and the tree of life. his — answering to Jesus Christ‘s “My.” She owns that the garden is His, and the fruits in her, which she does not in false humility deny (Psalm 66:16; Acts 21:19; 1 Corinthians 15:10) are His (John 15:8; Philemon 1:11). And doth Jesus call me to go with him from Lebanon, and escape the lion's den, and the mountains of leopards? [Romans 11:36] Of him, as the efficient cause; through him, as the administering cause; and to him as the final cause. Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honey-comb; the sweetest words of humble prayer and praise, of warm professions of love and duty; or communicating to all around that good conversation which ministers grace to the healers: honey and milk are under thy tongue; the doctrines of the gospel, so pleasant and so refreshing to the soul, of which the pious delight to speak, for their own and others' edification and comfort; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon; the garments of that holy profession which they make, and adorn with every good word and work, and which render them amiable in the eyes of God, and respected before men. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". The believer, notwithstanding his own corruption, conscious that through grace there are with him pleasant fruits for Christ to eat. עלנה from עולה, כּשׂבּה from כּבשׂה). Used by Permission. Still, there are the fruits and there are the flowers, in a measure; there is a good beginning made wherever the grace of God has undertaken the culture of our nature. She owns that the garden is His, and the fruits in her, which she does not in false humility deny (Ps 66:16; Ac 21:19; 1Co 15:10) are His (Joh 15:8; Php 1:11). Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Blow upon my garden — This verse is spoken by the spouse. "Commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16". 16. I held him, and would no let him go, until I had brought him into my mother"s house and into the chamber of her that conceived me.". Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Wind. Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, or one glance; for no sooner does the eye of faith look to him, but his arms of love are reached forth to embrace the soul; with one chain of thy neck, the pearls of divine grace, which adorn the temper and conversation of the saints, make them amiable in the eyes of their divine Lord; and this he with transport professes: How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! 1:9 "like my mare" - at that time in the Orient the horse was not a beast of burden, but the cherished companion of kings. 2nd, Christ delights in his church, and wishes for her company at all times: Therefore. "Matthew Henry Concise Commentaryon the Whole Bible". (Nys. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/song-of-solomon-4.html. Song of Solomon 4:16. I. Come, Holy Ghost, and be to me as the quickening source in leading to Jesus, and taking from Jesus, and showing everything to me in Jesus. In the text we are taught that it is by contrary and conflicting forces that perfection of character is attained. Their thanksgivings and praises a well-pleasing sacrifice. The spouse further cries, “Let Him eat His pleasant fruits.” I have often felt myself overcome with the bare idea that anything I have ever done should give my Lord pleasure. Prosperity is verily a congenial south wind. The Bride reciprocates the Bridegroom's love. BibliographyTorrey, R. A. But, alas! https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/pet/song-of-solomon-4.html. BibliographyPoole, Matthew, "Commentary on Song of Solomon 4:16". Song of Solomon 4:16. 43:20; and if the south wind blow, it is hot, Luke 12:55. Her desire is therefore that her fruits being rightly ripened, her graces greatened and made mature by the benign breath of the Holy Ghost (compared here, as elsewhere, to the several winds), their sweetness may be dispread, and conveyed to the nostrils of such as have "their senses habitually exercised to discern good and evil."