16所有真基督徒都有基督作他们的生命(西三4),但许多人虽有基督,却只是在起初的阶段。这生命需要在我们里面扩增,而这生命的扩增,就是在生命里的长大。雅歌描绘爱主的人在生命里逐渐长大,并且在生命里被变化。雅歌里的寻求者借着在生命里长大,从法老车上套的骏马,一个阶段接着一个阶段的被变化,成为百合花、鸽子、烟柱、卧榻、华轿、冠冕以及产生基督各面丰富的园子(一9,二1、14,三6~7、9、11,四12,五1)。园子成为一座城作神的居所,向着神是美丽的,向着仇敌却威武如展开旌旗的军队。至终这座城成为满了光的天体和书拉密女(六4、10、13)。 16All genuine believers have Christ as their life (Col. 3:4), but many have Him only in the initial stage. This life needs to increase in us, and the increase of this life is the growth in life. The Song of Songs portrays the gradual growth in life of the Lord’s lovers and their transformation in life. The seeker in Song of Songs is transformed stage by stage by the growth in life from a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots to a lily, a dove, pillars of smoke, a couch, a palanquin, a crown, and a garden that produces Christ in all His rich aspects (1:9; 2:1, 14; 3:6-7, 9, 11; 4:12; 5:1). The garden becomes a city as God’s dwelling place, which is beautiful toward God yet terrible as an army with banners toward the enemy. Eventually, the city becomes the heavenly bodies full of light and the Shulammite (6:4, 10, 13).