5. But wouldst thou know the place
also? Again He saith in Canticles, I went down into the garden
of nuts Cant.
iv. 11.; for it was a
garden where He was crucified John xix. 41. See Index,
Golgotha.. For though
it has now been most highly adorned with royal gifts, yet formerly it
was a garden, and the signs and the remnants of this remain. A
garden enclosed, a fountain sealed Cant.
iv. 12.,
by the Jews who said, We remember that that deceiver said while He
was yet alive, After three days, I will rise: command, therefore,
that the sepulchre be made sure; and further on, So they went, and made
the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone with the guard Matt. xxvii. 63, 65.. And aiming well at these, one saith,
and in rest Thou shalt judge them Job vii. 18:.…try him every
moment. Heb. עגרֶֶ “a wink,” as in Job xxi. 13,
misinterpreted in both passages by the LXX. as
meaning “rest.”. But who is the fountain that is
sealed, or who is interpreted as being a well-spring of living
water Cant.
iv. 15.? It is the
Saviour Himself, concerning whom it is written, For with Thee is the
fountain of life Ps. xxxvi. 9..