Teks -- The Song of Songs 1:2 (NET)

The Desire for Love

1:2 The Beloved to Her Lover: Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately! For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.

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Wesley: Sos 1:2 - Let him

The beginning is abrupt; but is suitable to, and usual in writing of this nature, wherein things are not related in an historical and exquisite order, but that which was first done is brought in, as it were accidentally, after many other passages: as we see in Homer, and Virgil, and others. These are the words of the spouse, wherein she breathes forth her passionate love to the bridegroom, whom she does not name; because it was needless, as being so well known to the persons, to whom she speaks, and being the only person who was continually in her thoughts. By kisses, the usual tokens of love and good - will, she means the communications of his love and favour, his graces and comforts breathed into her from the Spirit of Christ.

Wesley: Sos 1:2 - Thy love

This sudden change of the person is frequent, in pathetic discourses. First she speaks of him as absent, but speedily grows into more acquaintance with him, and by ardent desire and faith, embraces him as present.

Wesley: Sos 1:2 - Wine

Than the most delicious meat or drink, or than all sensible delights, one kind being put for all.

JFB: Sos 1:2 - him

Abruptly. She names him not, as is natural to one whose heart is full of some much desired friend: so Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre (Joh 20:15), as if everyone must know whom she means, the one chief object of her desire (Psa 73:25; Mat 13:44-46; Phi 3:7-8).

JFB: Sos 1:2 - kiss

The token of peace from the Prince of Peace (Luk 15:20); "our Peace" (Psa 85:10; Col 1:21; Eph 2:14).

JFB: Sos 1:2 - of his mouth

Marking the tenderest affection. For a king to permit his hands, or even garment, to be kissed, was counted a great honor; but that he should himself kiss another with his mouth is the greatest honor. God had in times past spoken by the mouth of His prophets, who had declared the Church's betrothal; the bride now longs for contact with the mouth of the Bridegroom Himself (Job 23:12; Luk 4:22; Heb 1:1-2). True of the Church before the first advent, longing for "the hope of Israel," "the desire of all nations"; also the awakened soul longing for the kiss of reconciliation; and further, the kiss that is the token of the marriage contract (Hos 2:19-20), and of friendship (1Sa 20:41; Joh 14:21; Joh 15:15).

JFB: Sos 1:2 - thy love

Hebrew, "loves," namely, tokens of love, loving blandishments.

JFB: Sos 1:2 - wine

Which makes glad "the heavy heart" of one ready to perish, so that he "remembers his misery no more" (Pro 31:6-7). So, in a "better" sense, Christ's love (Hab 3:17-18). He gives the same praise to the bride's love, with the emphatic addition, "How much" (Son 4:10). Wine was created by His first miracle (Joh 2:1-11), and was the pledge given of His love at the last supper. The spiritual wine is His blood and His spirit, the "new" and better wine of the kingdom (Mat 26:29), which we can never drink to "excess," as the other (Eph 5:18; compare Psa 23:5; Isa 55:1).

Clarke: Sos 1:2 - Let him kiss me, etc.

Let him kiss me, etc. - She speaks of the bridegroom in the third person, to testify her own modesty, and to show him the greater respect

Clarke: Sos 1:2 - Thy love is better than wine

Thy love is better than wine - The versions in general translate דדיך dodeyca , thy breasts; and they are said to represent, spiritually, the Old and New Testaments.

TSK: Sos 1:2 - him // thy love

him : Son 5:16, Son 8:1; Gen 27:26, Gen 27:27, Gen 29:11, Gen 45:15; Psa 2:12; Luk 15:20; Act 21:7; 1Pe 5:14

thy love : Heb. thy loves, Son 1:4, Son 2:4, Son 4:10, Son 7:6, Son 7:9, Son 7:12, Son 8:2; Psa 36:7, Psa 63:3-5; Isa 25:6, Isa 55:1, Isa 55:2; Mat 26:26

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Poole: Sos 1:2 - Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth // Thy love // Than wine

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth The beginning of this book is abrupt, and may seem disorderly; but is very suitable to and usual in writings of this nature, wherein things are not related in an historical and exquisite order, but that which was first done is brought in as it were accidentally after many other passages; as we see in Homer, and Virgil, and in the Greek and Latin comedians. These are the words of the spouse, as all acknowledge, wherein she breatheth forth her passionate love to the Bridegroom, whom she doth not name, but only intimate by the pronoun relative him, which is here put without and for the antecedent, as Psa 87:1 114:2 Joh 20:15 ; which manner of expression she useth, because it was needless to name him, as being so well known to the person or persons to whom site speaks, and being the only person who was continually in her thoughts and speeches. By kisses , which were the usual tokens of love and good will, she means nothing else but the communications and manifestations of his love and favour to her, as the following clause explains this; his graces and comforts breathed into her from the mouth and Spirit of Christ.

Thy love: this sudden change of the person is frequent, especially in such pathetical discourses. First she speaks of him as absent, and at a distance, but speedily grows into more acquaintance with him, and by ardent desire in faith embraceth him as present.

Than wine than the most delicious meats or drinks, or than all sensual delights, this one kind being synecdochically put for all the rest, as it is Est 5:6 Job 1:13 Pro 9:2 Ecc 2:3 .

PBC: Sos 1:2

Wine is an intoxicating liquid, but the Shulamite describes His love as being much better than wine.

Haydock: Sos 1:2 - Ointments // Thy name // Thee

Ointments. The bosom used to be perfumed. (Atheneus xv. 5., and xv. 14.) ---

Thy name. Thou thyself. The preaching of the gospel produced a wonderful change in the world, 2 Corinthians ii. 15. (Calmet) ---

The Church honours the name of Jesus on the second Sunday after the Epiphany. (A. Butler, p. 130.) (Haydock) ---

Thee. The martyrs and Christian virgins are inflamed with divine love.

Gill: Sos 1:2 - Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth // for thy love is better than wine

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth,.... That is, Solomon; Christ, the antitype of Solomon, the church's beloved; or it is a relative without an antecedent, which was only in her own mind, "let him"; him, whom her thoughts were so much employed about; her affections were so strongly after; and whose image was as it were before her, present to her mind: and "the kisses of his mouth", she desires, intend some fresh manifestations and discoveries of his love to her; by some precious word of promise from his mouth, applied to her; and by an open espousal of her, and the consummation of marriage with her. It may be rendered, "with one of the kisses of his mouth" ⁿ; kisses with the ancients were very rare, and used but once when persons were espoused, and as a token of that; and then they were reckoned as husband and wife ^o: on which account, it may be, it is here desired; since it was after this we hear of the spouse being brought into the nuptial chamber, and of the keeping of the nuptial feast, Son 1:4;

for thy love is better than wine; or "loves" ^p; which may denote the abundance of it; the many blessings of grace which flow from it; and the various ways in which it is expressed; as well as the high esteem the church had of it. This is said to be "better than wine"; for the antiquity of it, it being from everlasting; and for the purity of it, being free from all dregs of dissimulation and deceit on the part of Christ, and from all merit, motives, and conditions, on the part of the church; for its plenty, being shed plenteously in the hearts of believers, and who may drink abundantly of it; and for its freeness and cheapness, being to be had without money and without price; and it is preferable to wine for the effects of it; which not only revives and cheers heavy hearts, but quickens dead sinners, and comforts distressed saints; and of which they may drink plentifully, without hurt, yea, to great advantage.