Song of Solomon 1:2 KJV — MannaFest

Song of Solomon 1:2

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

KJV

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ASV

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.

WEB

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

YLT

Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better are thy loves than wine.

DBT

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.

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Song of Solomon — Love poetry in eight chapters — the Bible's most surprising book. A chiastic structure; a bride and bridegroom alternating in dialogue; and a three-school interpretive tradition the site surfaces without adjudication.

Author: Traditional: Solomon (1:1 ''the song of songs, which is Solomon's''). Critical: the ''of Solomon'' construction allows ''about Solomon'' or ''to Solomon'' and opens the authorship question. §7.9 surfaces; most readings keep Solomonic association.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 965–930 BC. Critical reading: later editorial compilation.

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Song of Solomon 4:10
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Song of Solomon 1:4
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Psalms 36:7
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
Isaiah 55:1–2
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Psalms 63:3–5
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

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22 ), which will be to me as the kisses of the mouth, sure tokens of reconciliation, as Esau's kissing Jacob was." All gospel duty is summed up in our kissing the Son ( Ps. ii. 12 ); so all gospel-grace is summed up in his kissing us, as the father of the prodigal kissed him when he returned a penitent.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(2.) Her promise to improve that grace: Draw me, and then we will run after thee. See how the doctrine of special and effectual grace consists with our duty, and is a powerful engagement and encouragement to it, and yet reserves all the glory of all the good that is in us to God only.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Wine was created by His first miracle (Joh 2:1-11), and was the pledge given of His love at the last supper. The spiritual wine is His blood and His spirit, the "new" and better wine of the kingdom (Mt 26:29), which we can never drink to "excess," as the other (Eph 5:18; compare Ps 23:5;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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