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"My beloved." - Song of Solomon 2:8
This was a golden name which the ancient Church in her most joyous moments was
wont to give to the Anointed of the Lord. When the time of the singing of birds
was come, and the voice of the turtle was heard in her land, her love-note was
sweeter than either, as she sang, "My beloved is mine and I am his: he feedeth
among the lilies." Ever in her song of songs doth she call him by that
delightful name, "My beloved!" Even in the long winter, when idolatry had
withered the garden of the Lord, her prophets found space to lay aside the
burden of the Lord for a little season, and to say, as Esaias did, "Now will I
sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard." Though the
saints had never seen his face, though as yet he was not made flesh, nor had
dwelt among us, nor had man beheld his glory, yet he was the consolation of
Israel, the hope and joy of all the chosen, the "beloved" of all those who were
upright before the Most High. We, in the summer days of the Church, are also
wont to speak of Christ as the best beloved of our soul, and to feel that he is
very precious, the "chiefest among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely. " So
true is it that the Church loves Jesus, and claims him as her beloved, that the
apostle dares to defy the whole universe to separate her from the love of
Christ, and declares that neither persecutions, distress, affliction, peril, or
the sword have been able to do it; nay, he joyously boasts, "In all these things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. "
O that we knew more of thee, thou ever precious one!
"My sole possession is thy love; In earth beneath, or heaven above, I have no
other store; And though with fervent suit I pray, And importune thee day by day,
I ask thee nothing more."
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