An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.
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An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel.
Author
Robotham, John, fl. 1654.
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London :: Printed by Matthew Simmons, in Aldersgate-street next doore to the guilded-Lyon,
1651.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Commentaries
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"An exposition on the whole booke of Solomons song,: commonly called the canticles. Wherein the text is explained and usefull observations raised thereupon. / By John Robotham, preacher of the gospel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91908.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024.
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Because I am blacke.
The form of the Hebrew word here, differeth from that in the former verse, and seemeth to diminish the signification, and signifies somewhat blacke, or blackish: by this the Church would signifie, that her blacknesse was not such, as that she might be contemned or dis∣dained for it: her blackness was but an outside black∣ness; though her skin was black, yet her inside was faire, and that outward blacknesse of hers was not her proper colour neither, but by accident, and therefore she proceedeth to give the reasons of her blacknesse.
Notes
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Subnigra, quod sim sub∣nigra, so Iun. translates it.