{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/sol002.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/sol002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/sol002.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nso is\nHow 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.\"\nour wall\n\"Our wall.\" The bride had returned to her own home: the Bridegroom seeks her.\ndove\nThere 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\" (Phi 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.","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Song of Solomon (Canticles): Song of Solomon (Canticles) Chapter 2","type":"page"}