Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Song of Solomon 8:7
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Song of Solomon8:7
7. waters--in contrast with the "coals of fire" (So 8:6; 1Ki 18:33-38). Persecutions (Ac 8:1) cannot quench love (He 10:34; Re 12:15, 16). Our many provocations have not quenched His love (Ro 8:33-39).
if ... give all the substance ... contemned--Nothing short of Jesus Christ Himself, not even heaven without Him, can satisfy the saint (Php 3:8). Satan offers the world, as to Jesus Christ (Mt 4:8), so to the saint, in vain (1Jo 2:15-17; 5:4). Nothing but our love in turn can satisfy Him (1Co 13:1-3).
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