A Commentary on the Song of Solomon
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
This volume began as a series of notes for use with his congregation, George Burrowes has collated and fleshed out the notes to form a comprehensive, verse-by-verse commentary on the Song of Songs. Before the summary and exposition, Burrowes provides an in-depth introduction defending the canonicity of the book and the allegorical nature of the Song of Songs.
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Key Features
- Commands the attention of the reader with insightful and intelligent commentary
- Includes an extensive introduction that sets the foundation for understanding the commentary to follow
- Urges the reader to utilize this book to achieve a previously unknown closeness with God
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Summary of the Song
- Translation
- Analysis of the Song
- Commentary on the Song
Top Highlights
“Beset with the inseparable infirmity of human nature, an over estimate of ourselves, and forgetting that the difficulty in understanding it may lie mainly with us, we act as though capable judges of the extent of God’s love, and of the way it should be expressed; and we censure the language of the Holy Spirit as improper and extravagant, because we know so little of this love as to be unable to see how incomprehensible its nature.” (Page 19)
“In the words of the saintly McCheyne, ‘No book furnishes a better test than does the Song of the depth of a man’s Christianity. If his religion be in his head only, a dry form of doctrines; or if it hath place merely in his fancy, like Pliable in Pilgrim’s Progress, he will see nothing here to attract him. But if his religion have a hold on his heart, this will be a favourite portion of the word of God.’” (Page 26)
“The nature of Christ is here illustrated by the richness and pleasantness of the best perfume; and as the very best known to men was not good enough to represent the character of him who was fairer than the sons of men, God had a perfume compounded for the express purpose of showing the divine riches of our great High Priest, the holy anointing oil of the Jewish sanctuary.” (Pages 155–156)
“McCheyne, who found in these ‘Letters’ daily delight, though dying at the age of nine and twenty, had scarcely left himself a single text of the Song on which he had not already discoursed.” (Page 27)
“Great advances in holiness must be made by seeking eminent measures of the Spirit.” (Page 148)
Praise for the Print Edition
We like the fearlessness of his criticism. A poetic heart has enabled him often, we think, to catch the true spirit of the exquisite original. In fine, we do not know any book in English that gives so correct a view of this precious part of Scripture.
—The Presbyterian Quarterly Review
The excellent work of Dr. Burrowes is specially fitted to remove prejudices of men of taste against the Song of Solomon, as the medium of spiritual communion between the soul and Christ. We welcome it as a welcome contribution to us from our transatlantic brethren.
—Moody Stuart
Product Details
- Title: A Commentary on the Song of Solomon
- Author: George Burrowes
- Publisher: William S. Martien
- Publication Date: 1853
- Pages: 527
About George Burrowes
George Burrowes was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Burrowes was a professor of Latin and Greek languages, a professor of biblical instruction, and a professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature at San Francisco Theological Seminary.
