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Early in 1632 we find Samuel Rutherford writing in these words to his friend Lady Kenmure:
It is the crooked love of some harlots, that they love bracelets earrings and rings better than the lover that sendeth them; God will not be so loved; for that were to behave as harlots and not as the chaste spouse, to abate from our love when these things are pulled away. Our love to Him should begin on earth as it shall be in heaven; for the bride taketh not by a thousand degrees so much delight in her wedding garment, as she doth in her bridegroom; so we in the life to come, howbeit clothed with glory as with a robe, shall not be so much affected with the glory that goeth about us, as with the bridegroom's joyful face and presence.
page 175 note 1 Letters, Glasgow, 1765, p. 334.
page 175 note 2 Quoted by Gilson, , The Mystical Theology of St. Bernard, p. 138.Google Scholar
page 175 note 3 Gilson, p. 217.
page 175 note 4 Church Hymnary, Nos. 205, 323, 324. Cp. 419, v. 4.
page 176 note 1 The OT evidences are largely summarised in Hebert, , Throne of David, pp. 56–58.Google Scholar
page 176 note 2 Jer. 2.2, 2.20.
page 176 note 3 Ezek. 16.32, 59–60.
page 178 note 1 Kennedy, H. A. A., ‘The NT metaphor of the Messianic Bridal’, Expositor, 8th S series, vol. xi, pp. 97 ff.Google Scholar
page 179 note 1 C. H. Dodd, Moffat Commentary on The Epistle to the Romans, ad loc.
page 179 note 2 In these six verses Rom. 7.1–6, we find 
and παλαιóηs only here in the NT. μoιχαλί twice here, is not elsewhere in Paul, χρημαrίζω also is not found again in Paul. In addition there are two other words rare in Paul's letters, καινóτη(here and Rom. 6.4) and καρπoφoρέω (here twice, and in Col. 1 twice). The evidence of vocabulary seems suggestive.
page 180 note 1 E. F. Scott, Ephesians, ad. loc.
page 182 note 1 Quoted in Kennedy loc. cit.
page 182 note 2 Manson, T. W., The Teaching of Jesus, p. 35, n. 3, pp. 83 ff.Google Scholar
page 183 note 1 Kennedy, loc. cit.
page 183 note 2 O. Cullmann, Le retour du Christ, chap. 1. In greater detail, Christ et le temps.
page 184 note 1 Letters, Glasgow, 1765, pp. 283, 400.
page 186 note 1 Christ et le temps, p. 19.
page 188 note 1 Robinson, J. A. T., ‘Agape and Eros’, Theology, 1945, p. 99.Google Scholar
