Teks -- The Song of Songs 8:13 (NET)

Epilogue: The Lover’s Request and His Beloved’s Invitation

8:13 The Lover to His Beloved: O you who stay in the gardens, my companions are listening attentively for your voice; let me be the one to hear it!

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Wesley: Sos 8:13 - Thou

Christ speaks here to his spouse.

Wesley: Sos 8:13 - The gardens

Not in the wilderness of the world, but in the church, the garden of God. He saith, gardens, because of the many particular congregations, into which the church is divided.

Wesley: Sos 8:13 - Companions

The friends of the bride and bridegroom.

Wesley: Sos 8:13 - Hearken

Diligently observe all thy words towards me.

Wesley: Sos 8:13 - Cause me

When I am gone from thee, let me hear thy prayers, and praises, and the preaching of my gospel in the world.

JFB: Sos 8:13

Jesus Christ's address to her; now no longer visibly present. Once she "had not kept" her vineyard (Son 1:6); now she "dwells" in it, not as its owner, but its superintendent under Jesus Christ, with vinedressers ("companions"), for example, Paul, &c. (Act 15:25-26), under her (Son 8:11-12); these ought to obey her when she obeys Jesus Christ. Her voice in prayer and praise is to be heard continually by Jesus Christ, if her voice before men is to be effective (Son 2:14, end; Act 6:4; Act 13:2-3).

Clarke: Sos 8:13 - Thou that dwellest in the gardens

Thou that dwellest in the gardens - This is supposed to refer to the bridegroom asking permission of his spouse early in the morning to retire, as was his usual custom. He intimates the companions were waiting to hear, and he wished to hear it in the way of permission to depart.

TSK: Sos 8:13 - dwellest // the companions // cause

dwellest : Son 2:13, Son 4:16, Son 6:2, Son 6:11, Son 7:11, Son 7:12; Mat 18:20, Mat 28:20; Joh 14:21-23

the companions : Son 1:7, Son 3:7-11, Son 5:9-16; Jdg 11:38, Jdg 14:11; Psa 45:14

cause : Son 2:14; Psa 50:15; Joh 14:13, Joh 14:14, Joh 15:7, Joh 16:24

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Poole: Sos 8:13 - Thou that dwellest // In the gardens // The companions // hearken to thy voice // Cause me to hear it

Thou that dwellest: the Hebrew word is of the feminine gender, which plainly showeth that Christ speaks hero to his spouse, being about to depart from her for a season, as the next verse showorb.

In the gardens not in the wilderness of the world, for believers are chosen or called out of the world , Joh 15:19 ; but in the church, the garden of God, which God hath fenced and appropriated to himself. He saith gardens , because of the many particular congregations into which the church is divided.

The companions the friends of the bride and Bridegroom,

hearken to thy voice diligently observe all thy words and carriages towards me, and all the transactions between thee and me.

Cause me to hear it when I am gone from thee, let me hear thy prayers, and praises, and the preaching of my gospel in the world.

Gill: Sos 8:13 - Thou that dwellest in the gardens // the companions hearken to thy voice // cause me to hear it

Thou that dwellest in the gardens,.... These are the words of Christ to the church, describing her by her habitation, and may be rendered, "O thou, inhabitress of the gardens" ⁱ; the word used being in the feminine gender, which determines the sense of it, as belonging to the church: but the Septuagint version renders it by a word in the masculine gender; and so Ambrose ^k, who interprets the words as spoken by the church to Christ; though he observes that Symmachus and Aquila interpret them as the words of Christ to the church. By the "gardens" are meant particular congregations, the dwelling places of the church, and where she has work to do by her ministers, to plant, water, prune, and dress the gardens; and of particular believers, whose business it is to attend on the ministry of the word, and other ordinances; and dwelling here may denote diligence and constant attendance here, and which is approved of by Christ, and well pleasing to him: and it is honourable, as well as profitable and delightful, to have a place in these gardens, and especially an abiding one; and indeed those, to whom Christ gives a place and a name here, are in no danger of being turned or driven out, as Adam was from Eden;

the companions hearken to thy voice; meaning either the divine Persons, the Father and the Holy Ghost, as Piscator; the companions of Christ, of the same nature, perfections, and glory with him; who listen to what the church and true believers say to them and to one another, Mal 3:16; or the angels, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, the friends of Christ and his people, who hearken to the conversation of believers, in private and public; and especially to the Gospel, preached in the assembly of the saints, Eph 3:10; or rather the daughters of Jerusalem, who all along attend the bride in this Song, and are the virgins her companions, Psa 45:14; and it is a title that belongs to all truly gracious souls, Psa 122:8; who hearken to the voice of the church, to the Gospel, preached by her ministers; which is a joyful sound, and gives great delight and pleasure;

cause me to hear it; that is, her voice; so sweet and charming to him, as in Son 2:14; her voice in prayer and praise; in speaking of him, his person, offices, and grace, to others, and confessing his name before men. Some render the words, "preach me" ^l; and then the sense is, seeing the companions flock unto thee, and listen with great attention and pleasure to thy voice, take the opportunity of preaching me unto them; let my person, righteousness, and grace, be the subject of thy ministry: and which was done in the first times of the Gospel, by the apostles; has been, more or less, ever since, by faithful ministers; and will be continued until the second coming of Christ, prayed for in Son 8:14.