Excerpt from Song of Solomon 2:4 as explained by Jamieson, Fausset and Brown

a COMMENTARY, CRITICAL, EXPERIMENTAL, AND PRACTICAL, on the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, by the rev. robert jamieson, d.d., st. paul’s, glasgow; rev. a. r. fausset, a.m., st. cuthbert’s, york; and the rev. david brown, d.d., professor of theology, aberdeen.

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4. He brought me to the banqueting house—Hebrew, ‘house of wine.’ Historically fulfilled in the joy of Simeon and Anna in the temple over the infant Saviour, and that of Mary too (cf. Luke 1:53); typified, Exod. 24:9–11; also in the erection of the temple of Solomon, the spiritual banqueting house of Israel. Spiritually, the bride or beloved is led (v. 4) first into the King’s chambers, thence is drawn after Him, in answer to her prayer; is next received on a grassy couch under a cedar kiosk; and at last in a ‘banqueting hall,’ such as Josephus says Solomon had in his palace, ‘wherein all the vessels were of gold.’ The transition is from holy retirement to public ordinances—the tabernacle and temple in the Old Testament Church, and in the New Testament Church worship and the Lord’s Supper (Ps. 36:8). The bride, as the Queen of Sheba, is given “all her desire” (Ps. 63:5): type of the heavenly feast hereafter (Isa. 25:6, 9). his banner … love. After having rescued us from the enemy, our victorious “Captain” (Heb. 2:10) seats us at the banquet, under a banner inscribed with His name, “love” (1 John 4:8). His love conquered us to Himself. This banner rallies round us the forces of Omnipotence as our protection. It marks to what country we belong—heaven, the abode of love; and in what we most glory—the cross of Jesus Christ, through which we triumph (Rom. 8:37). Cf. with “over me,” “underneath are the everlasting arms” (Deut. 33:27),

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