Song of Solomon 2:10

“My beloved spake, and said unto me, etc.] Christ, the church’s beloved, being so near her, she could distinctly hear and understand what he spoke, and relate the very words: or, “he answered to me”f136; to a secret petition, put up to him for a more full enjoyment of him; for there is mental as well as vocal prayer, which Christ, as God omniscient, knows full well, and gives answer to: of this may be an answer to her petitions in (<220205>Song of Solomon 2:5); and as some in (<220206>Song of Solomon 2:6); however, Christ said something after related, that she well knew he spake, and not another, and to her in particular. What he said follows: Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away; the…”

“The bride relates to the chorus a visit which the beloved had paid her some time previously in her native home. He on a fair spring morning solicits her company. The bride, immersed in rustic toils, refuses for the present, but confessing her love, bids him return at the cool of day. It is a spring-time of affection which is here described, still earlier than that of the former chapter, a day of pure first-love, in which, on either side, all royal state and circumstance is forgotten or concealed. Hence, perhaps, the annual recitation of the Song of Songs by the synagogue with each return of spring, at the Feast of Passover, and special interpretations of this passage by Hebrew doctors, as…”

“Spake - Invited me outwardly by his word, and inwardly by his Spirit. Rise up - Shake off sloth, and disentangle thyself more fully from all the snares of this world. Come - Unto me, and with me; follow me fully, serve me perfectly, labour for a nearer union, and more satisfying communion with me. Song of Solomon (Canticles) 2:11”

“2:10-13 In the Middle East, winter is the rainy season of clouds, gloom, and cold. When winter is past, and the rains are over and gone, the stimulating and invigorating sights, sounds, and smells of spring energize romantic feelings.”

“spake: Sol 2:8; Sa2 23:3; Psa 85:8; Jer 31:3 Rise: Sol 2:13, Sol 4:7, Sol 4:8, Sol 5:2; Gen 12:1-3; Psa 45:10, Psa 45:11; Mat 4:19-22, Mat 9:9; Co2 6:17, Co2 6:18; Co2 11:2; Rev 19:7-9, Rev 22:17 Song of Solomon (Canticles) 2:11”

“When now Shulamith continues: 10a My beloved answered and said to me, Arise, my love, my fair one, and go forth! the words show that this first scene is not immediately dramatic, but only mediately; for Shulamith speaks in monologue, though in a dramatic manner narrating an event which occurred between the commencement of their love-relation and her home-bringing. (Note: Grtz misinterprets this in order by the supplement of similar ones to make the whole poem a chain of narrative which Shulamith declaims to the daughters of Jerusalem. Thereby it certainly ceases to be dramatic, but so much more tedious does it become by these interposed expressions, "I said," "he said," "the sons of my…”