Song 2:11 | JFB | STEP | 11. the winter —the law of the covenant of works ( ). rain is over — ( ). Then first the Gentile Church is called "beloved, which was not beloved" ( ). So "the winter" of estrangement and sin is "past" to the believer ( ). The rising "Sun of righteousness" dispels the "rain" ( ). The winter in Palestine is past by April, but all the showers were not over till May. The time described here is that which comes directly after these last showers of winter. In the highest sense, the coming resurrection and deliverance of the earth from the past curse is here implied ( ). No more "clouds" shall then "return after the rain" ( ; compare ); "the rainbow round the throne" is the "token" of this.

Song of Solomon 2:11

11. the winter—the law of the covenant of works (Mt 4:16).

rain is over— (Heb 12:18-24; 1Jo 2:8). Then first the Gentile Church is called "beloved, which was not beloved" (Ro 9:25). So "the winter" of estrangement and sin is "past" to the believer (Isa 44:22; Jer 50:20; 2Co 5:17; Eph 2:1). The rising "Sun of righteousness" dispels the "rain" (2Sa 23:4; Ps 126:5; Mal 4:2). The winter in Palestine is past by April, but all the showers were not over till May. The time described here is that which comes directly after these last showers of winter. In the highest sense, the coming resurrection and deliverance of the earth from the past curse is here implied (Ro 8:19; Re 21:4; 22:3). No more "clouds" shall then "return after the rain" (Ec 12:2; Re 4:3; compare Ge 9:13-17); "the rainbow round the throne" is the "token" of this.