I held him — This begins the fourth stanza. The bride’s mother is mentioned again in Song of Solomon 6:9;[Reference Song of Sol…

I held him ...—Bossuet, following Bede, regards this as prophetic of Mary Magdalen (type of the Church) on the morning of the Resurrection…

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him…

[It was] but a little that I passed from them Either a small moment of time, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; or a little dis…

It was hard for the Old Testament church to find Christ in the ceremonial law; the watchmen of that church gave little assistance to those who soug…