Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
Thursday after Epiphany
Thursday after Epiphany
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Bible Commentaries
Philpot's Commentary on select texts of the Bible Philpot's Commentary
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Bibliographical Information
Philpot, Joseph Charles. "Commentary on Song of Solomon 2". Philpot's Commentary on select texts of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/jcp/song-of-solomon-2.html.
Philpot, Joseph Charles. "Commentary on Song of Solomon 2". Philpot's Commentary on select texts of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/
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Verse 14
Song 2:14
"O my dove, in the clefts of the rock." Song 2:14
Jesus is the hiding-place, the only hiding-place from sin and self. "You are my hiding-place," said David of old. This was shown to Moses, in figure, when the Lord put him into the cleft of a rock, which Toplady has so beautifully versified, to paint the longing desires of his soul—
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee!"
It is on this "Rock of Ages" that God has built his Church. As a rock, he is deep as well as high—so deep as to have under-bottomed the depths of the fall, so high as to be God’s fellow, seated at his right hand. As a rock, also, he is broad as well as long—broad enough to bear millions of living stones built on him, and long enough to reach from eternity to eternity. The Apostle, therefore, prays that the Church at Ephesus may comprehend with all saints, "what is the breadth and length, and depth and height, and know the love of Christ which passes knowledge."