Song of Songs, 2:10, “Arise my Love, my Beautiful One, and come away…” Arise, my Love, for Night is passed, And Death’s cold reign is done. Your tears to joy have turned, at last, Rise in the Risen Son. Arise, my Flesh, my Bone, my Bride, Blood-washed and Beautiful, Born from and gathered through my
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Song of Songs 6:3, “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine…” Where is the Lover of your soul? Where is the crown’ed King? We saw Him sealed ‘neath silent stone We heard Him cease to sing. Yea, truly have your eyes beheld For truly He has come Down to the depths of deepest
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Song of Songs 2:10, “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away…” The word for “arise” here in the Greek OT is “ἀνίστημι”—the same word translated “resurrection.” We may, thus, read this call to “Arise” as the call of the Risen Christ to His Bride, gathering her up from the dust of death and
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Song of Songs, 3:11, ‘…look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.’ Now, at first, today’s picture may not seem to fit at all with the chosen text. However, there is a connection that was
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Song of Songs 8:6, “…love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.” During the “poetry” section of my morning readings, I’m working through Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs, which I like better). There’s long been debate on
Song of Songs 4:7, “You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.” Ephesians 5:25,27 “…Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her…so that He might present the Church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing…” The goal in this picture was
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Song of Songs 2:10-12, “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come…” I came across this verse back when I was reading through SOS, but I wanted to save
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