...flock to rest at noon :for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?'] Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children were angry with me: they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard...

...with a scorched countenance, or one that is bgrnt black. Hence the spouse in the Canticles saith, " Look not upon me because I am black : because the sun hath looked upon me," Cant. i. 6. It is Very probable these woflds refer to the queen of Shcba, who came to visit Solomon,...

...omitted, and what she chose, from the Canticles. F«M unguentum diff'unrfUur nnmcn tuum, &c. 352 358 Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked ujton me. My mother's children were angry with me. : they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but...

...anticipates the surprise which the daughters of Jerusalem would feel when they beheld her countenance : " Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me." Females of distinction in Palestine, and even in Mesopotamia, are not only beautiful and well-shaped,...

...black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me ; they made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard...

...unpleasant and bitter to the world : as the church herself saith, Song i. 5, 6, " I am black but comely. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me." That is, Christ has subjected me to the cross and to evils ; and thus, outwardly I am black, but internally...

...unpleasant and bitter to the world : as the church herself saith, Song i. 5, 6, " I am black but comely. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me." That is, Christ has subjected me to the cross and to evils ; and thus, outwardly I am black, but internally...

...within; Yet comely in Jesus, we very well know, Accepted in him we are whiter than snow." Verse 6.—" Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me. .My mother's children were angry w"' 11 me, they made me keeper of the vineyard, but mine own vineyard...

...cxceL" — Gen. 49. " I am black, but comely." " Look not upon me because I am black." — Canticles. " Look not upon me because I am black — because the sun hath looked upon me." — Song Sol. i. 6. " I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee." Gen. xviii. 6....

...horrible mark of Cain, nor the direful effects of Noah's curse, but the mark of a scorching sun. ' Look not upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards' Canticles i, 6....