His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
| Word | Hebrew | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| hand | שְׂמֹאלוֹ֙ se.mo.Lo | H8040 | properly · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular |
| head | רֹאשִׁ֔י ro.Shi | H7218 | the head (as most easily shaken) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix |
| hand | וִֽימִינ֖וֹ vi.mi.No | H3225 | the right hand or side (leg · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular |
| embrace | תְּחַבְּקֵֽנִי te.cha.be.Ke.ni | H2263 | to clasp (the hands or in embrace) · verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular + pronominal suffix |
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His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. That is, when she should have the presence of Christ in her mother's house. Or the words are a petition that so it might be, "let his left hand", &c. (g); or a declaration of what she did enjoy, "his left hand is under my head", &c. (h); see Gill on Sol 2:6. (g) Tigurine version, Marckius, some in Michaelis. (h) Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.
bring you to my childhood home (literally to my mother’s house): Cp. 3:4.
His left hand is under my head, etc.
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His left hand is under my head, etc. By His left hand He designates the sacraments of His incarnation and the gifts of His presence; by His right hand, indeed, He symbolizes the rewards that the elect will receive in the future: among these is not only the vision of divine majesty, but also the glory of glorified humanity, and of the same one Mediator between God and men. Hence, the bride rightly desires His left hand to be placed under her head, while His right hand embraces her, so that now she may rest from worldly turmoil through His temporal aid and then enjoy His manifest vision perpetually. And indeed the eternal rest of the saints is never interrupted by any disturbance. Hence it is rightly said, And His right hand will embrace me, because certainly the presence of divine majesty will surround His own in the heavenly kingdom on all sides, lest any remembrance of misery or fear of an end should violate the happiness worthy of God. Hence also in the Apocalypse John says, And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away: and again: And night shall be no more. And they will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will give them light, and they shall reign forever and ever (Apoc. XXII). But indeed the rest granted to the faithful in the present can by no means be perfect, because the ancient enemy, death, is not yet destroyed. Hence it happens that often the blessed rest of the good, like the most pleasant sleep which makes their minds intent on divine matters almost insensible to this world, is disturbed by the attacks of the wicked, namely of those who, ignorant of the happiest rest, have rather accustomed themselves to remain awake through love of the fleeting world. And would that only those who openly belong to the world and attack the peace of the Church did so, and not even those who within her impede her spiritual endeavors with their carnal ways. But because she indeed also generates many such as these, the Lord admonishes them not to presume to disturb the minds of the faithful devoted to the Church's prayer, or reading, or other acts of piety, when, having heard the desire of her heart, He immediately added:
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