Song of Solomon 5:2
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
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Barnes' Notes
Some time may be supposed to have elapsed since the bride’s solemn espousals with the king Cant. 4:7–5:1. A transient cloud of doubt or estrangement is now passing over her soul, as by the relation of…
Son 5:2 to Son 6:3. A Dream
On the hypothesis we have adopted, a night must be supposed to intervene between Son 5:1-2. After the interview with the king and that with her lover night came; and as…
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