Song of Solomon 5:5
Song of Solomon 5:5
I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet, smelling, myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
In these words the church gives an account of a second and a third effect of Christ's "putting in his hand by the hole of the door."
II. Having done so, she laid hold on the "handles of the lock," in order to draw it back; and before she proceeds to take notice of any other steps she took, with the success thereof, she stops to give an account of a sweet piece of experience she met with, when she put her hands "upon the handles of the lock; My hands, says she, dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet-swelling myrrh."