A brief exposition of the whole book of Canticles, or Song of Solomon lively…

Come with me from Lebanon.] It is a famous hill in the uttermost border of Israel northward: Amana a hill more northward on the west of Syria, looking into Syria, Mesopotamia, Cilicia, & all Asia the less.

Hermon and Shenir.] Two names of the same hill, though haply given to divers parts, called also Syrion or Sien^*.

Hermon and Shenir.] Two names of the same hill, though happely given to divers parts, called also Syrion or Sien^*.

1. *Deut. 3. 9. & 4. 48.

The Lions dens and mountains of the Leopards:] Jerusalem^* and the Temple in our Saviours time was made a den of thieves and robbers;² but in the Apostles time,³ after the Ascension, the Rulers grew more fierce and cruel, spilling the blood of Stephen, and making havoc of ⟨p. 118⟩the Church: So then, in this verse, Christ calls his Church of the Christian Jews,