Song of Solomon 7:13
13. mandrakes—Hebrew, dudaim, from a root meaning "to love"; love apples, supposed to exhilarate the spirits and excite love. Only here and Ge 30:14-16. Atropa mandragora of LINNÆUS; its leaves like lettuce, but dark green, flowers purple, root forked, fruit of the size of an apple, ruddy and sweet-smelling, gathered in wheat harvest, that is, in May (Mariti, ii. 195).
gates—the entrance to the kiosk or summer house. Love "lays up" the best of everything for the person beloved (1Co 10:31; Php 3:8; 1Pe 4:11), thereby really, though unconsciously, laying up for itself (1Ti 6:18, 19). Matthew 13:52
52. Then said he unto them, Therefore—or as we should say, "Well, then."
every scribe—or Christian teacher: here so called from that well-known class among the Jews. (See Mt 23:34). which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven—himself taught in the mysteries of the Gospel which he has to teach to others. is like unto a man that is an householder which bringeth forth—"turneth" or "dealeth out." out of his treasure—his store of divine truth. things new and old—old truths in ever new forms, aspects, applications, and with ever new illustrations.Mt 13:53-58. HOW JESUS WAS REGARDED BY HIS RELATIVES. ( = Mr 6:1-6; Lu 4:16-30).
2 Corinthians 5:17
17. Therefore—connected with the words in 2Co 5:16, "We know Christ no more after the flesh." As Christ has entered on His new heavenly life by His resurrection and ascension, so all who are "in Christ" (that is, united to Him by faith as the branch is In the vine) are new creatures (Ro 6:9-11). "New" in the Greek implies a new nature quite different from anything previously existing, not merely recent, which is expressed by a different Greek word (Ga 6:15).
creature—literally, "creation," and so the creature resulting from the creation (compare Joh 3:3, 5; Eph 2:10; 4:23; Col 3:10, 11). As we are "in Christ," so "God was in Christ" (2Co 5:19): hence He is Mediator between God and us. old things—selfish, carnal views (compare 2Co 5:16) of ourselves, of other men, and of Christ. passed away—spontaneously, like the snow of early spring [BENGEL] before the advancing sun. behold—implying an allusion to Isa 43:19; 65:17. Revelation of John 21:5
5. sat—Greek, "sitteth."
all things new—not recent, but changed from the old (Greek, "kaina," not "nea"). An earnest of this regeneration and transfiguration of nature is given already in the regenerate soul. unto me—so Coptic and ANDREAS. But A, B, Vulgate, and Syriac omit. true and faithful—so ANDREAS. But A, B, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic transpose, "faithful and true" (literally, "genuine").