“My beloved is like a roe or a young hart.” (Song 2:9)
These animals are greatly admired for their grace, beauty, gentleness, fleetness, and sure-footedness. They were clean animals, and good for food (Deut. 12:15). In Psalm 42:1 they are used to typify the Godly man whose soul pants after God, as the hart does after the water brooks. In Isaiah 35:6, a spiritually-sound man is likened to an hart in its agility.
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.” (Rom 8:5-9)
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