Teachings – By the Roes, and by the Hinds of the Field

BY THE ROES, AND BY THE HINDS OF THE FIELD

UNFOLDING EIGHTEEN

WHERE WE ARE 

We just completed a two discourse presentation on the trees of the forest, which included the apple tree and its personification of Christ’s presence. Pastor now moves on the Song of Songs 2:7 where Pastor speaks of the love the Bride has for the Bridegroom, Jesus. The Bride charges the ‘daughters of Jerusalem’ not to stir or to awaken him. The ‘daughters’ are the unmarried, religious virgins who would disturb the Bridegroom for their own enjoyment.  

SCRIPTURE

Song of Songs, Canticles 2: 7

“I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.”

BY THE ROES, AND BY THE HINDS OF THE FIELD
UNFOLDING EIGHTEEN

Pastor began by writing, 

“The spouse was in the full enjoyment of fellowship with her Beloved. Her joy was so great as almost to overpower her, and yet, so nearly does fear treat upon the heels of joy, she was filled with dread lest her bliss should come to an end.”

Have you felt that way in the presence of the Lord? I have had such bliss. Like Peter, I have clambered out the boat to walk on the water as I went towards Jesus but then sank. 

“The roes and the hinds of the field are creatures of great beauty…. Now since nothing could be more lovely than communion with Jesus, the spouse exhorts the daughters of Jerusalem by all the loveliest objects in nature to refrain from disturbing it.” 

Here, with regard to the ‘daughters of Jerusalem’ Pastor is speaking of the ‘religious daughters…’ they who want to embrace only a manikin (likeness) of their own creation.  

Indeed, as Pastor presented it,

“He who would disturb such mutual intercourse must be devoid of spiritual taste, and blind to all which is most worthy of admiration.”

The next thought found in the ‘roes, and the hinds of the field’ is the tender innocence of Christ. Do not disturb him in his rest. Who will vex the Lamb of God? Go elsewhere, ye hunters! 

“The hind of the morning has already sweated great drops of blood falling on the ground.”

“A soul communing with the Son of God challenges no enmity. The world may rise against proselytizing zeal, or defiant controversy, or ostentatious ceremonialism, for these have prominence and power, and are fair game for martial spirits, but fellowship is quiet, retiring, unobtrusive, harmless.”

What the writer of the Canticles is expressing is a relationship that is only found in a married love. ‘Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe,’ (Proverbs 5: 19)

 The point ended with in this discourse was, 

“If you love, or are loved, have a reverent regard for those who commune with Jesus, for their souls take their fill of love, and to drive them from their bliss would be inexcusable barbarity.”

THOUGHT GOING FORWARD

This discourse is the most vexing for me to understand between the Bride and the ‘daughters of Jerusalem.’ Are the ‘daughters’ like the ‘groupies’ that follow a rock star? Certainly, the Bride would know her husband/lover and know that he would rebuff anyone (the Pharisee/Sadducee) whom the Father did not draw to Him. Certainly, she would not be jealous in that sense. However, how are we protective of Christ in the sense of not stirring him – let him sleep in until He pleases. I am looking forward to discussing this further.     

IN TRIBUTE TO SPURGEON’S LOVE OF SHORT RYHMES

Such a thing of beauty
I fain can imagine
Such love between Bridegroom and Bride,
who could e’re describe?