Song of Songs 2:9 Cross References - Thomson

⁹ My dear brother is like a roe; or a young hart on the mountains of Baithor. Lo! he is behind our wall, looking in at the windows, taking a near view through the lattice.

¹⁸ Now there were there three sons of Saruia, Joab, and Abessa and Asael. And Asael was swift of foot as a wild roe.

¹⁷ Till the day blow fresh and the shades be removed. Return; Be, my dear brother, like a Roe, or a young hart on the caverned mountains.

¹⁴ Away, my dear brother, and be like a roe; or a young hart on the mountains of spices.

³⁵ And they told the occurrences on the road, and how he became known to them by his breaking the loaf.

³⁹ You search the scriptures because you think you have by means of them everlasting life! Now these are the very writings which testify concerning me;

⁴⁶ For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me; for he hath written concerning me.

⁴¹ This Esaias said when he saw his glory and spake concerning him.

¹² For we now by means of a mirrour see a representation of things; but we shall then see face to face. I now know in part; but I shall then know as I am known.

¹³ and do not [act] as Moses. He put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel might not look stedfastly to the end of that which is abolished. ¹⁴ Their minds were indeed blinded, for even to this day that very veil at the reading of the old covenant remaineth. That which is abolished by Christ is not unveiled, ¹⁵ but even at this day when Moses is read there is a veil upon their heart, ¹⁶ but when ever it shall turn to the Lord that veil will be taken away. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the spirit? And where the spirit of the Lord, is, there is liberty; and we all with an unveiled face viewing, as in a mirrour, the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord of spirit.

¹⁴ for he is our peace. He it is, who hath made both one, and who hath demolished the partition wall, ¹⁵ having; by his flesh put a stop to the enmity; the law of the commandments [contained] in positive injunctions; that he might frame the two anew, in himself, into one new man, making peace;

¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things to come. And with respect to the body of the Christ,

⁸ the Holy Spirit plainly shewing this, that the way into the holies was not yet manifested while that tabernacle hath a standing. ⁹ This figurative representation was for the time being, according to which gifts and sacrifices were offered, which cannot make him who performeth service, perfect with regard to the conscience,

¹ For the law having a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of those things, can by no means make them who present themselves, perfect for ever by those sacrifices which they offer year after year.

¹⁹ As we, therefore, brethren, have, by virtue of the blood of Jesus, free access to the holies 20 by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, his flesh;

¹⁰ about which salvation the prophets, who prophesied concerning this favour for you, made diligent inquiry ¹¹ and search, trying to find to what time, and what manner of time, the spirit of Christ within them pointed, when it testified before hand the sufferings which were for Christ, and the glories which should succeed them: ¹² to whom it was revealed that it was not for themselves, but for us, that they dispensed those things which have now been announced to you by them who proclaimed to you the glad tidings with a holy spirit sent from heaven; into which things angels have an earnest desire to look narrowly.

¹⁰ Whereupon I fell down at his feet to worship him. And he saith to me, See thou do not. I am the fellow servant of thee and of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the spirit of this prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.