Song of Solomon 5:11

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“His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and
black as a raven.”
— Song of Solomon 5:11

Comparisons all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the spouse uses
the best within her reach. By the head of Jesus we may understand his
deity, “”for the head of Christ is God”” and then the ingot of purest
gold is the best conceivable metaphor, but all too poor to describe one
so precious, so pure, so dear, so glorious. Jesus is not a grain of
gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as
earth and heaven cannot excel. The creatures are mere iron and clay,
they all shall perish like wood, hay, and stubble, but the ever living
Head of the creation of God shall shine on for ever and ever. In him is
no mixture, nor smallest taint of alloy. He is for ever infinitely holy
and altogether divine. The bushy locks depict his manly vigour. There
is nothing effeminate in our Beloved. He is the manliest of men. Bold
as a lion, laborious as an ox, swift as an eagle. Every conceivable and
inconceivable beauty is to be found in him, though once he was despised
and rejected of men.

“”His head the finest gold;
With secret sweet perfume,
His curled locks hang all as black
As any raven’s plume.””

The glory of his head is not shorn away, he is eternally crowned with
peerless majesty. The black hair indicates youthful freshness, for
Jesus has the dew of his youth upon him. Others grow languid with age,
but he is for ever a Priest as was Melchizedek; others come and go, but
he abides as God upon his throne, world without end. We will behold him
to-night and adore him. Angels are gazing upon him-his redeemed must
not turn away their eyes from him. Where else is there such a Beloved?
O for an hour’s fellowship with him! Away, ye intruding cares! Jesus
draws me, and I run after him.

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