The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
The verse belongs to Canticles, or the Song of Solomon, a poem written in the warm, vivid figurative language of the East. Its imagery is a parable portraying Christ and His church. It pictures Christ's wonderful love and the church's answering love. That answering love is often unfaithful and unsteady.
The house with beams of cedar is one exalted condition of the church. It is a palace of silver enclosed in boards of cedar where she is seen at one time. This stands in contrast to being among the trees of the woods and to all her other lowly and exalted conditions from the patriarch Abraham to the present day. In this way the verse shows the church to be variable as the wind and changeable as the weather, carried about by the slightest circumstances.
The verse belongs to Canticles, or the Song of Solomon, a poem written in the warm, vivid figurative language of the East. Its imagery is a parable portraying Christ and His church. It pictures Christ's wonderful love and the church's answering love. That answering love is often unfaithful and unsteady.
The house with beams of cedar is one exalted condition of the church. It is a palace of silver enclosed in boards of cedar where she is seen at one time. This stands in contrast to being among the trees of the woods and to all her other lowly and exalted conditions from the patriarch Abraham to the present day. In this way the verse shows the church to be variable as the wind and changeable as the weather, carried about by the slightest circumstances.