The Five Scrolls

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The Five Scrolls
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Collection of Five Scrolls
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Songs of Songs

• This Song of Solomons is very much unlike the
  songs of his father David.

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Song of Songs 41, 3, 5

• How beautiful you are, my love,   how very
  beautiful!Your eyes are doves   behind your
  veil.Your lips are like a crimson thread,   and
  your mouth is lovely.Your cheeks are like halves
  of a pomegranate   behind your veil. Your two
  breasts are like two fawns,   twins of a
  gazelle,   that feed among the lilies.

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Singing Songs of Songs

• It is an allegory.
• It is a parable.
• It is a nuptial song by the expressions of love
  between a bridegroom and his bride.
• It may easily be taken in a spiritual sense by
  the Christian church.
• Christ is represented as the bridegroom of his
  church (Mt. 251 Rom. 74 2 Co. 112 Eph.
  532), and the church as the bride, the Lambs
  wife.
• By faith and holy love we enter into the holiest,
  which is the house of God and the gate of heaven.

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Ruth
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Ruth 114-18

• 14 Then they wept aloud again. Orpah kissed her
  mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.
• 15  So she said, See, your sister-in-law has
  gone back to her people and to her gods return
  after your sister-in-law.
• 16 But Ruth said,Do not press me to leave
  you   or to turn back from following you!Where
  you go, I will go   where you lodge, I will
  lodgeyour people shall be my people,   and
  your God my God. 17 Where you die, I will
  die   there will I be buried.May the Lord do
  thus and so to me,   and more as well,if even
  death parts me from you! 18 When Naomi saw that
  she was determined to go with her, she said no
  more to her.

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Summary of Ruth

• It is probable that Samuel was the penman of it.
• It relates to the affliction first (deaths of
  husband and sons in Moab) and afterwards the
  comfort of Naomi.
• There are the instances of Ruth and Naomis
  humility, ch. 2.
• The bringing of them into an alliance with Boaz,
  ch. 3.
• And their happy settlement thereby, ch. 4.
• And let us remember the scene is laid in
  Bethlehem, the city where our Jesus Christ the
  Redeemer was born.

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Lamentations

• The penman of this book was Jeremiah the prophet,
  who is here Jeremiah the poet, and prophet.
  Therefore this book is fitly adjoined to the book
  of his prophecy, and is as an appendix to it.

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• The occasion of these Lamentations was the
  destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the
  Chaldean army.

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Lamentations 11-3a

• 1 How lonely sits the city   that once was full
  of people!How like a widow she has
  become,   she that was great among the
  nations!She that was a princess among the
  provinces   has become a vassal.
• 2 She weeps bitterly in the night,   with tears
  on her cheeksamong all her lovers   she has no
  one to comfort herall her friends have dealt
  treacherously with her,   they have become her
  enemies.
• 3 Judah has gone into exile with
  suffering   and hard servitude

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Ecclesiastes

• Solomon, being brought to repentance, resolves,
  like his father, to teach transgressors Gods way
  (Ps. 5113) and to give warning to all to take
  heed of splitting upon those rocks which had been
  fatal to him and these were fruits meet for
  repentance. The fundamental error of the children
  of men, and that which is at the bottom of all
  their departures from God, is the same with that
  of our first parents, hoping to be as gods by
  entertaining themselves with that which seems
  good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and
  desirable to make one wise.

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Ecclesiastes 12-3

• 2Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,   vanity
  of vanities! All is vanity.
• 3What do people gain from all the toil   at
  which they toil under the sun?
• 4A generation goes, and a generation comes, but
  the earth remains for ever.

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Vanity

• "Vanity," in Ecclesiastes, and usually in
  Scripture, means, not foolish pride, but the
  emptiness in final result of all life apart from
  God. It is to be born, to toil, to suffer, to
  experience some transitory joy, which is as
  nothing in view of eternity, to leave it all, and
  to die. See Romans 820-22.

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Ecclesiastes 31-3

• 3 For everything there is a season, and a time
  for every matter under heaven 2 a time to be
  born, and a time to diea time to plant, and a
  time to pluck up what is planted 3 a time to
  kill, and a time to heala time to break down,
  and a time to build up 4 a time to weep, and a
  time to laugha time to mourn, and a time
  to dance 5 a time to throw away stones, and a
  time to gather stones togethera time to
  embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing 6
  a time to seek, and a time to losea time to
  keep, and a time to throw away 7 a time to
  tear, and a time to sewa time to keep silence,
  and a time to speak 8 a time to love, and a
  time to hatea time for war, and a time for
  peace.

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Changes in Life

• Every purpose has its time. The clearest sky will
  be clouded, Post gaudia luctusJoy succeeds
  sorrow and the most clouded sky will clear up,
  Post nubila PhoebusThe sun will burst from
  behind the cloud.

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Esther

• We find in this book that even those Jews who
  were scattered in the provinces of the heathen
  were taken care of, as well as those who were
  gathered in the land of Judea, and were
  wonderfully preserved, when doomed to destruction
  and appointed as sheep for the slaughter. He
  saved them.

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Summary of Esther

• The particulars are edifying and very encouraging
  to the faith and hope of Gods people in the most
  difficult and dangerous times. There are
• 1. The defeating of Hamans plot against
  Mordecais life, ch. 5-7.
• 2. The defeating of his general plot against the
  Jews, ch. 8.
• 3. The care that was taken to perpetuate the
  remembrance of this, ch. 9, 10.

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Psalms 371-4

• Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be
  thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
• For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
  and wither as the green herb.
• Trust in the LORD, and do good so shalt thou
  dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
• Delight thyself also in the LORD and he shall
  give thee the desires of thine heart.

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The Five Scrolls

• Song of Songs
• Ruth
• Lamentations
• Ecclesiastes
• Esther
• OMEGA