Song of Solomon 5:8-16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Bible Study & Commentary

Verses 8-16

Song of Solomon 5:8 to Song of Solomon 6:3 . Descriptive Poem ( Wasf) : The Strength and Beauty of the Bridegroom.— On this view, Song of Solomon 5:8 f. is taken as an introduction to the praises of “ the beloved,” and whether there is any real connexion with “ the dream poem” is uncertain.

Song of Solomon 5:8 . sick: from the disappointment and delays of love.

Song of Solomon 5:9 . Or, What kind of a beloved is thy beloved?

Song of Solomon 5:10 . dazzling white ( Lamentations 4:7) and ruddy ( 1 Samuel 16:12).— chiefest: the most conspicuous or distinguished.

Song of Solomon 5:11 . bushy: the word occurs only here; probably curly or wavy.

Song of Solomon 5:12 . Perhaps this should read: “ His eyes are like a pair of doves sitting by the water courses; Which are as if bathed in milk and sitting by full streams.”

Song of Solomon 5:13 . spices: better balsam shrubs ( Song of Solomon 6:2).— banks of sweet herbs: towers of perfume ( mg.) is the literal rendering, but to follow the versions requires only a slight change in the pronunciation, viz. producing sweet odours ( cf. Psalms 133:2).— lilies: scarlet flowers (see Song of Solomon 2:1).

Song of Solomon 5:14 . His fingers are cylinders of gold set with topaz ( mg.) ; “ his body was as beautiful as a piece of ivory work studded with sapphires.”

Song of Solomon 5:15 . He is strong, handsome, and attractive in speech.

Song of Solomon 5:16 b, c. surely a full answer to the question of Song of Solomon 5:9.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester, from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.In 1890-92 he was a lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford, and from 1890 to 1897 held a fellowship at Merton College.In 1892, however, he was invited to become tutor at the Primitive Methodist Theological Institute in Manchester, which was renamed Hartley College in 1906. He was largely responsible for broadening the curriculum which intending Primitive Methodist ministers were required to follow, and for raising the standards of the training.In 1895-1912 he served as lecturer in the Lancashire Independent College, from 1904 to 1912 also in the United Methodist College at Manchester. In 1904 he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the (Victoria) University of Manchester. (This chair was in the Faculty of Theology established in that year; it was renamed "Rylands Professor, etc." in 1909.)Peake was also active as a layman in wider Methodist circles, and did a great deal to further the reunion of Methodism which took effect in 1932, three years after his death. In the wider ecumenical sphere Peake worked for the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, serving as president in 1928, and was a member of the World Conference on Faith and Order held in Lausanne in 1927. He published and lectured extensively, but is best remembered for his one-volume commentary on the Bible (1919), which, in its revised form, is still in use.The University of Aberdeen made him an honorary D. D. in 1907. He was a governor of the John Rylands Library.... Show more

First published in 1919, Peake's commentary of the bible was a one-volume commentary that gave special attention to Biblical archaeology and the then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts. Biblical quotations in this edition were from the Revised Version of the Bible.... Show more

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