Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Song of Solomon 5:4
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Song of Solomon5:4
4. A key in the East is usually a piece of wood with pegs in it corresponding to small holes in a wooden bolt within, and is put through a hole in the door, and thus draws the bolt. So Jesus Christ "puts forth His hand (namely, His Spirit, Eze 3:14), by (Hebrew, 'from,' so in So 2:9) the hole"; in "chastening" (Psa 38:2; Re 3:14-22, singularly similar to this passage), and other unexpected ways letting Himself in (Lu 22:61, 62).
bowels ... moved for him--It is His which are first troubled for us, and which cause ours to be troubled for Him (Jr 31:20; Ho 11:8).
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