…the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Song of Solomon 2:15
Little literally means small in size or number.
Foxes means as a burrower such as a jackal or a fox.
Spoil means to wind tightly as a rope. Specifically: by a pledge
Figuratively: to pervert, destroy, also to writhe in pain as in childbirth,
deal corruptly, offend, spoil and travail.
This verse could read;
A small burrower, an agitation to pervert, destroy and offend
with great pain the new tender fruit of the vine.
Could well be the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
The Lord told me one time that I was to bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Which took me by surprise, see I always thought that the fruit was going to manifest on its own. But on further meditation and study I figured out if we don’t control our own soul, then nobody else will.
It is up to me to control my soul and cultivate the fruit that He planted
in my spirit when I got born again.
He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit
than he who takes a city. Proverbs 16:32
You see the little foxes, or the little agitations that try to burrow or find
their way into our lives can destroy the very fruit we are trying to cultivate.
It is a little strongman that attaches to our lives to keep us out of step with
the ones we love and the Holy Spirit.
If you can stay offended with much pain and agitation than the evil one has
kept you from bearing the fruit and walking in love,
therefore you are useless and
castrated and are of no further threat to the gates of hell.
