"I WILL open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us."-PSALM lxxviii. 2, 3. "I have likened the daughter of Zion unto a comely and delicate woman."-JER. vi. 2. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.”—Ex. iii. 5. A MEDITATIONS. ' CHAPTER IV. VER. 1.—" Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from Gilead. Он, what a sight for angels, (a) what display Lo! thou art fair, thou freely justified! The pleasure of the Lord; (f) His soul's delight, 66 And gracious covenant, and yet, a flock," A body-(k) where uniting into one (a) 1 Pet. i. 12. ("Which things the angels desire to look into.") (b) Ephes. iii. 10. (c) Ephes. i. 13; 2 Cor. i. 22; Rev. vii. 3. (e) Isa. xliii. 4. (g) John xvii.; xi. 22; Gal. iii. 28. (k) 1 Cor. xii. 27. Myriads of fibres are minutely wove, Each with its functions and its means to act; Thine are the locks, (1) of which each single hair And individual, howe'er amassed In throngs collective, and those throngs themselves Flock of the Saviour! (t) ransomed of His blood, With Jacob and his offspring-(v) thence thy claim (7) Hair is used as a type of the visible Church, Ezek. v. 1—3. (n) Col. i. 18. (m) John xv. 5, 6. (r) 1 Pet. i. 8. (u) Isa. xxviii. 16. (s) Matt. v. 44; & vi. 12. (0) Luke xii. 7. (t) Ezek. xxxiv. 31; They "come from Gâleed—”*(w). They were numbered there Where reconciliation had its seal, And Jesus witnessed of Jehovah's love. scans The galaxies of heaven; He who calls Each by its name (a) through that vast catalogue Nor find one wanting of his Isräel; He who Thy faithful seed, (d) believing patriarch With note of marvel, with that strong Behold! (ƒ) 66 (w) Gen. xxxi. 44, 47. (*) John x. 28. (c) Jer. xxxiii. 22. (f) Isa. viii. 18. my * Gilead, or Gâleed, The heap of Witness. |