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Song of Sol. 2:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. δI sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruiti was sweet to my ζtaste.

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I delighted and sat down.

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Rev. 22:1‑2• ¹And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
²In the midst of its street, and of the river, on this side and on that side, the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit; and the leaves of the tree for healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:1‑2)

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palate.

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Apple; Apple Tree,

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Ministry on This Verse

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the apple tree.

Song of Sol. 8:5• ⁵Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awoke thee under the apple-tree: There thy mother brought thee forth; There she brought thee forth that bore thee. (Song of Sol. 8:5)

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Isa. 4:2• ²In that day there shall be a sprout of Jehovah for beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth for excellency and for ornament for those that are escaped of Israel. (Isa. 4:2)

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Ezek. 17:23‑24• ²³upon the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth branches, and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar; and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
²⁴And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: I Jehovah have spoken, and will do it. (Ezek. 17:23‑24)

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John 15:1‑8• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
²As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
³Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
⁴Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, thus neither can ye unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, *he* bears much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.
⁶Unless any one abide in me he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up; and they gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall come to pass to you.
⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and ye shall become disciples of mine. (John 15:1‑8)

my beloved.

Song of Sol. 5:9‑10,16• ⁹What is thy beloved more than another beloved, Thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so charge us?
¹⁰My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.
¹⁶His mouth is most sweet: Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, yea, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. (Song of Sol. 5:9‑10,16)

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Psa. 45:2• ²Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. (Psa. 45:2)

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Psa. 89:6• ⁶For who in the heaven can be compared to Jehovah? who among the sons of the mighty shall be likened to Jehovah? (Psa. 89:6)

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John 1:14‑18• ¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;
¹⁵(John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)
¹⁶for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace.
¹⁷For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.
¹⁸No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, *he* hath declared him. (John 1:14‑18)

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John 3:29‑31• ²⁹He that has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices in heart because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.
³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.
³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who has his origin in the earth is of the earth, and speaks as of the earth. He who comes out of heaven is above all, (John 3:29‑31)

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Heb. 1:1‑6• ¹God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets,
²at the end of these days has spoken to us in the person of the Son, whom he has established heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
³who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,
⁴taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.
⁵For to which of the angels said he ever, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee? and again, *I* will be to him for father, and *he* shall be to me for son?
⁶and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him. (Heb. 1:1‑6)

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Heb. 3:1‑6• ¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,
²who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.
³For *he* has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.
⁴For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things is God.
⁵And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;
⁶but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are *we*, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end. (Heb. 3:1‑6)

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Heb. 7:23‑26• ²³And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;
²⁴but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.
²⁵Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.
²⁶For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens: (Heb. 7:23‑26)

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Heb. 12:2• ²looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)

I sat, etc.

Heb. I delighted and sat down, etc.

Judg. 9:15,19‑20• ¹⁵And the thorn-bush said to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, come, put confidence in my shadow; but if not, fire shall come out of the thorn-bush and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
¹⁹--if ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;
²⁰but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the citizens of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the citizens of Shechem and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. (Judg. 9:15,19‑20)

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Psa. 57:1• ¹To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me; for my soul taketh refuge in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings do I take refuge, until the calamities be overpast. (Psa. 57:1)

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Psa. 91:1• ¹He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. (Psa. 91:1)

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Isa. 4:6• ⁶And there shall be a tabernacle for shade by day from the heat, and for a shelter and for a covert from storm and from rain. (Isa. 4:6)

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Isa. 25:4• ⁴For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat: for the blast of the terrible ones has been as the storm against a wall. (Isa. 25:4)

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Isa. 32:2• ²And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land. (Isa. 32:2)

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1 John 1:3‑4• ³that which we have seen and heard we report to you, that *ye* also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is indeed with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
⁴And these things write we to you that your joy may be full. (1 John 1:3‑4)

his fruit.

Song of Sol. 2:5• ⁵Sustain ye me with raisin-cakes, Refresh me with apples; For I am sick of love. (Song of Sol. 2:5)

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Gen. 3:22‑24• ²²And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever …!
²³Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
²⁴And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life. (Gen. 3:22‑24)

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Ezek. 47:12• ¹²And by the river, upon its bank, on the one side and on the other, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not fade, nor their fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, for its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (Ezek. 47:12)

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Rev. 22:1‑2• ¹And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, going out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
²In the midst of its street, and of the river, on this side and on that side, the tree of life, producing twelve fruits, in each month yielding its fruit; and the leaves of the tree for healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:1‑2)

taste.

Heb. palate.

• Observe here that Christ is the apple tree. This will help us afterwards. (“Song of Solomon 2” by J.N. Darby)

• The Bride. (Vss. 3-7). (“Canticle 1: The Assurance of Love” by H. Smith)

• If the King sees excellence in the bride above all the daughters of women, the bride sees in her Beloved the only one among the sons of men in whom she can find rest, and shade, and fruit. Thus she likens Him to the citron tree with its dense shade and luscious fruit. (“Canticle 1: The Assurance of Love” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.