Songs 2:8-17 The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.… One of the most striking features of this book of Solomon's Song is that of liveliness. We find the Church here represented in the liveliness of her affections to Christ, to God; we here see the Saviour in the liveliness of His love, and of His activities towards the Church; and so He is represented as a roe, or as a young hart, expressive of freedom and activity. I. THE MOUNTAINS, THE HILLS OF IMPEDIMENT WHICH THE SAVIOUR OVERCOMES. I will here take the Saviour leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills, to denote with what triumph and with what certainty He enables all His people to overcome all their troubles. II. Take the mountains and the hills to denote THE ETERNAL TRUTHS OF THE GOSPEL, as spoken of in this book, — the mountains of eternity. "The voice of my Beloved! behold, He cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills," of division. There is God's everlasting love to Jacob in contradistinction to Esau; God's everlasting love to His own, in contradistinction to the others; and Christ glorified in that mountain of division. There is God's eternal election, and Christ gloried in the same, and commands His disciples to rejoice that their names are written in heaven. There is His eternal achievement by which He hath redeemed His people, and distinguished them from all others by that eternal redemption, for none but the redeemed can learn that song that the redeemed sing. "The mountains of division." Then comes regeneration; that brings His people up to Mount Zion — mountain of division. Then comes resurrection to life; then comes glorification. Here is a range of mountains ranging from eternity to eternity. (J. Wells.) Parallel Verses KJV: The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.WEB: The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills. |
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