Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vine.

[Heybro]

C. H. Spurgeon.   A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. " Little foxes... spoil the vines," and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow into the soul and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ that He will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a christian, but a little sin can make him miserable. Jesus will not walk with His people unless they drive out every known sin. He says, "If you keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, even ad I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in His love" ( John 15:10 ). Some Christians very seldom enjoy their Saviour's presence.  How is this? Surely it must be an affliction for a tender child to be separated from his father. Are you a child of God and yet satisfied to go on without seeing your Father's face? What!, you are the spouse of Christ and yet content without  His company! Surely you have fallen into a sad state, for the chaste spouse of Christ mourns like a dove without her mate, when he has left her. Ask, then, this question: what has driven Christ from you? He hides His face behind the wall of your sins. That wall may be built up of little pebbles, as easily of great stones. The sea is composed of drops, and the rocks are composed of grains; the sea that separates you from Christ may be filled with the drops of your little sins, and the rock that has nearly wrecked your weak vessel may have made by the daily working of the coral insects of your little sins. If you would live with Christ, walk with Christ, see Christ, and have fellowship with Christ, take heed of, " The little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes" ( Song 2:15).  Jesus invites you to go with Him and take them. He will surely, like Sampson, take the foxes at once and easily. Go with Him to the hunting.

[R. Hartono]

Foxes eat vine ???

[Michael37]

37 minutes ago, R. Hartono said:

Foxes eat vine ???

Apparently they go for low hanging grapes before they are ripe, not eating them if they are too sour but puncturing them so they are useless to harvest. Also they dig holes that disturb the trunk and roots, and chew on the trunks and branches, ...so really these little foxes are quite annoying for growers. It's a metaphor about things that cause problems among God's people, His Vine.