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geneva@Songs:1:1 @ An excellent song which was Salomons.

geneva@Songs:1:2 @ Let (note:)This is spoken in the person of the Church, or of the faithful soul inflamed with the desire of Christ, whom she loves.(:note) him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine.

geneva@Songs:1:3 @ Because of the (note:)The feeling of your great benefits.(:note) savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the They that are pure in heart and conversation. virgins love thee.

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geneva@Songs:1:5 @ I [am] (note:)The Church confesses her spots and sin, but has confidence in the favour of Christ.(:note) black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar was Ishmael's son, of whom came the Arabians that dwelt in tents. Kedar, as the Which within were all set with precious stones and jewels. curtains of Solomon.

geneva@Songs:1:6 @ Look not upon me, because I [am] (note:)Consider not the Church by the outward appearance.(:note) black, because the The corruption of nature through sin and afflictions. sun hath looked upon me: My own brethren who should have most favoured me. my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] my own vineyard have I not She confesses her own negligence. kept.

geneva@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, (note:)The spouse feeling her fault flees to her husband only for comfort.(:note) O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of Whom you have called to the dignity of pastors, and they set forth their own dreams instead of your doctrine. thy companions?

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geneva@Songs:1:9 @ I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's (note:)For your spiritual beauty and excellency there was no worldly treasure to be compared to you.(:note) chariots.

geneva@Songs:1:10 @ Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines.

geneva@Songs:1:11 @ We will make thee borders of golde with studdes of siluer.

geneva@Songs:1:12 @

geneva@Songs:1:13 @ A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved to me; he shall lie all night between my (note:)He will be most dear to me.(:note) breasts.

geneva@Songs:1:14 @ My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi.

geneva@Songs:1:15 @ My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.

geneva@Songs:1:16 @ Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our (note:)That is, the heart of the faithful, in which Christ dwells by his Spirit.(:note) bed [is] green.

geneva@Songs:1:17 @ The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.

geneva@Songs:2:1 @ I am the rose of the fielde, and the lilie of the valleys.

geneva@Songs:2:2 @ As the lily among thorns, so [is] my (note:)Thus Christ prefers his Church above all other things.(:note) love among the daughters.

geneva@Songs:2:3 @

geneva@Songs:2:4 @ Hee brought mee into the wine cellar, and loue was his banner ouer me.

geneva@Songs:2:5 @ Stay me with flagons, and comfort me with apples: for I am sicke of loue.

geneva@Songs:2:6 @ His left hande is vnder mine head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me.

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geneva@Songs:2:9 @ My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he (note:)For as his divinity was hidden under the cloak of our flesh.(:note) standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, gazing himself through the So that we cannot have full knowledge of him in this life. lattice.

geneva@Songs:2:10 @ My welbeloued spake and said vnto me, Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come thy way.

geneva@Songs:2:11 @ For, lo, the (note:)That is, sin and error is driven back by the coming of Christ, who is here described by the springtime, when all things flourish.(:note) winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone;

geneva@Songs:2:12 @ The flowers appeare in the earth: the time of the singing of birdes is come, and the voyce of the turtle is heard in our land.

geneva@Songs:2:13 @ The figtree hath brought foorth her yong figges: and the vines with their small grapes haue cast a sauour: arise my loue, my faire one, and come away.

geneva@Songs:2:14 @ O my dove, [that art] in the (note:)You who are ashamed of your sins, come and show yourself to me.(:note) clefts of the rock, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely.

geneva@Songs:2:15 @ Take for us the foxes, the (note:)Suppress the heretics while they are young, that is, when they begin to show their malice, and destroy the vine of the Lord.(:note) little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes.

geneva@Songs:2:16 @ My welbeloued is mine, and I am his: hee feedeth among the lilies,

geneva@Songs:2:17 @ Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a (note:)The church desires Christ to be most ready to help her in all dangers.(:note) roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

geneva@Songs:3:1 @ By (note:)The Church by night, that is, in troubles, seeks Christ, but is not incontinently heard.(:note) night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

geneva@Songs:3:2 @ I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will (note:)Showing that although we are not heard at first, yet we must still continue in prayer, till we feel comfort.(:note) seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

geneva@Songs:3:3 @ The (note:)Which declares that we must seek to all of whom we hope to have any help.(:note) watchmen that go about the city found me: [to whom I said], Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

geneva@Songs:3:4 @ When I had past a litle from them, then I found him whom my soule loued: I tooke holde on him and left him not, till I had brought him vnto my mothers house into the chamber of her that conceiued me.

geneva@Songs:3:5 @

geneva@Songs:3:6 @ Who [is] this that cometh out of the (note:)This refers to the Church of Israel which was led in the wilderness for forty years.(:note) wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

geneva@Songs:3:7 @ Behold his (note:)By the bed is meant the temple which Solomon made.(:note) bed, which [is] Solomon's; sixty valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel.

geneva@Songs:3:8 @ They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his sword upon his thigh because of fear (note:)He alludes to the watch which kept the temple.(:note) in the night.

geneva@Songs:3:9 @ King Salomon made himselfe a palace of the trees of Lebanon.

geneva@Songs:3:10 @ Hee made the pillars thereof of siluer, and the pauement thereof of gold, the hangings thereof of purple, whose middes was paued with the loue of the daughters of Ierusalem.

geneva@Songs:3:11 @ Go forth, O ye (note:)All you that are of the number of the faithful.(:note) daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the Christ became man, was crowned by the love of God with the glorious crown of his divinity. crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

geneva@Songs:4:1 @ Behold, thou [art] (note:)Because Christ delights in his Church, he commends all that is in her.(:note) fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a He has respect for the multitude of the faithful, which are many in number. flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

geneva@Songs:4:2 @ Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe in good order, which go vp from the washing: which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.

geneva@Songs:4:3 @ Thy lippes are like a threede of scarlet, and thy talke is comely: thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.

geneva@Songs:4:4 @ Thy necke is as the tower of Dauid builte for defence: a thousand shieldes hang therein, and all the targates of the strong men.

geneva@Songs:4:5 @ Thy two (note:)In which are knowledge and zeal two precious jewels.(:note) breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

geneva@Songs:4:6 @ Vntill the day breake, and the shadowes flie away, I wil go into the mountaine of myrrhe and to the mountaine of incense.

geneva@Songs:4:7 @ Thou art all faire, my loue, and there is no spot in thee.

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geneva@Songs:4:9 @ Thou hast ravished my heart, my (note:)Christ calls his Church sister in respect that he had taken the flesh of man.(:note) sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy In that he made his Church beautiful and rich, he loved his gifts in her. eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

geneva@Songs:4:10 @ My sister, my spouse, how faire is thy loue? howe much better is thy loue then wine? and the sauour of thine oyntments then all spices?

geneva@Songs:4:11 @ Thy (note:)Because of your confession and thanksgiving.(:note) lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the scent of thy garments [is] like the fragrance of Lebanon.

geneva@Songs:4:12 @ My sister my spouse is as a garden inclosed, as a spring shut vp, and a fountaine sealed vp.

geneva@Songs:4:13 @ Thy plantes are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as camphire, spikenarde,

geneva@Songs:4:14 @ Euen spikenarde, and saffran, calamus, and cynamon with all the trees of incense, myrrhe and aloes, with all the chiefe spices.

geneva@Songs:4:15 @

geneva@Songs:4:16 @ Awake, O (note:)She desires Christ to comfort her and to pour the graces of his Spirit on her, which is meant by the North and South wind.(:note) north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

geneva@Songs:5:1 @ I have come into my (note:)The garden signifies the kingdom of Christ, where he prepares the banquet for his elect.(:note) garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

geneva@Songs:5:2 @

geneva@Songs:5:3 @ I have put off my (note:)The spouse confesses her nakedness, and that of herself she has nothing, or seeing that she is once made clean she promises not to defile herself again.(:note) coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

geneva@Songs:5:4 @ My welbeloued put in his hand by the hole of the doore, and mine heart was affectioned toward him.

geneva@Songs:5:5 @ I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands flowed [with] myrrh, and my (note:)The spouse who should be anointed by Christ will not find him if she thinks to anoint him with her good works.(:note) fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

geneva@Songs:5:6 @ I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.

geneva@Songs:5:7 @ The (note:)These are the false teachers who wound the conscience with their traditions.(:note) watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

geneva@Songs:5:8 @ I charge you, (note:)She asks of them who are godly (as the law and salvation should come out of Zion and Jerusalem) that they would direct her to Christ.(:note) O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick with love.

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geneva@Songs:5:10 @ My welbeloued is white and ruddie, the chiefest of ten thousand.

geneva@Songs:5:11 @ His (note:)She describes Christ to be of perfect beauty and comeliness.(:note) head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven.

geneva@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters, which are washt with milke, and remaine by the full vessels.

geneva@Songs:5:13 @ His cheekes are as a bedde of spices, and as sweete flowres, and his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe.

geneva@Songs:5:14 @ His hands as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white yuorie couered with saphirs.

geneva@Songs:5:15 @ His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

geneva@Songs:5:16 @ His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem.

geneva@Songs:6:1 @ Where is thy beloved gone, (note:)Hearing of the excellency of Christ, the faithful desire to know how to find him.(:note) O thou fairest among women? where is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

geneva@Songs:6:2 @ My beloved is gone down into his (note:)That is, is conversant here in earth among men.(:note) garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

geneva@Songs:6:3 @ I am my welbeloueds, and my welbeloued is mine, who feedeth among the lilies.

geneva@Songs:6:4 @ Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as (note:)Which was a fair and strong city, (1Ki_14:17).(:note) Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as [an army] with banners.

geneva@Songs:6:5 @

geneva@Songs:6:6 @ Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe, which goe vp from the washing, which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.

geneva@Songs:6:7 @ Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.

geneva@Songs:6:8 @ There are (note:)Meaning that the gifts are infinite which Christ gives to his Church: or that his faithful are many in number.(:note) sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.

geneva@Songs:6:9 @ But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her & counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her.

geneva@Songs:6:10 @

geneva@Songs:6:11 @ I went down into the (note:)He went down into the synagogue to see what fruits came from the law, and the prophets.(:note) garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, [and] to see whether the vine flourished, [and] the pomegranates budded.

geneva@Songs:6:12 @

geneva@Songs:6:13 @ Return, return, O (note:)O ye people of Jerusalem, for Jerusalem was called Shalem which signifies peace.(:note) Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

geneva@Songs:7:1 @ How beautiful are thy (note:)He describes the comely beauty of the Church in every part, which is to be understood spiritually.(:note) feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work of the hands of a skilful workman.

geneva@Songs:7:2 @ Thy nauel is as a round cuppe that wanteth not licour: thy belly is as an heape of wheat compassed about with lilies.

geneva@Songs:7:3 @

geneva@Songs:7:4 @ Thy necke is like a towre of yuorie: thine eyes are like the fishe pooles in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, that looketh toward Damascus.

geneva@Songs:7:5 @ Thy head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king [is] (note:)He delights to come near you, and to be in your company.(:note) held captive by [its] locks of hair.

geneva@Songs:7:6 @ Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!

geneva@Songs:7:7 @ This thy stature is like a palme tree, and thy brestes like clusters.

geneva@Songs:7:8 @ I saide, I will goe vp into the palme tree, I will take holde of her boughes: thy breastes shall nowe be like the clusters of the vine: and the sauour of thy nose like apples,

geneva@Songs:7:9 @ And the roufe of thy mouth like good wine, which goeth straight to my welbeloued, and causeth the lippes of the ancient to speake.

geneva@Songs:7:10 @

geneva@Songs:7:11 @ Come, my welbeloued, let vs go foorth into the fielde: let vs remaine in the villages.

geneva@Songs:7:12 @ Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the (note:)If the people that are called to Christ bring forth any fruit.(:note) vine flourisheth, [whether] the tender grape appeareth, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

geneva@Songs:7:13 @ The mandrakes haue giuen a smell, and in our gates are all sweete things, new and olde: my welbeloued, I haue kept them for thee.

geneva@Songs:8:1 @ O (note:)The Church called of the Gentiles speaks thus to the Church of Jerusalem.(:note) that thou [wert] as my brother, that was nourished at the breasts of my mother! [when] I should find thee outside, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

geneva@Songs:8:2 @ I will leade thee and bring thee into my mothers house: there thou shalt teache me: and I will cause thee to drinke spiced wine, and newe wine of the pomegranate.

geneva@Songs:8:3 @

geneva@Songs:8:4 @

geneva@Songs:8:5 @ (Who is this that commeth vp out of the wildernesse, leaning vpon her welbeloued?) I raysed thee vp vnder an apple tree: there thy mother conceiued thee: there she coceiued that bare thee.

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geneva@Songs:8:7 @ Much water can not quench loue, neither can the floods drowne it: If a man should giue all the substance of his house for loue, they would greatly contemne it.

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geneva@Songs:8:12 @ But my vineyarde which is mine, is before me: to thee, O Salomon appertaineth a thousand pieces of siluer, and two hundreth to them that keepe the fruite thereof.

geneva@Songs:8:13 @ Thou that dwellest in the (note:)Christ dwells in his Church, whose voice the faithful hear.(:note) gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear [it].

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