John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 3:1-11
Night Thoughts and an Interlude1-4. There is a charming lightness of touch and quickness of movement in the story she tells, and it is all the more interesting for our having to supply the prosaic connecting links. ’The Unrest of Love’ is an apt title. We can only understand it as a maiden’s dream.2. The broad ways are what we should call the squares; wide, open spaces by the city gates and elsewhere. 4. The ’mother’s house’ is the women’s apartments, into which a strange man dare not... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 3:5
5. So :-; but there it was for the non-interruption of her own fellowship with Jesus Christ that she was anxious; here it is for the not grieving of the Holy Ghost, on the part of the daughters of Jerusalem. Jealously avoid levity, heedlessness, and offenses which would mar the gracious work begun in others (Matthew 18:7; Acts 2:42; Acts 2:43; Ephesians 4:30). CANTICLE III.— (Song of Solomon 3:6-5) —THE BRIDEGROOM WITH THE BRIDE. Historically, the ministry of Jesus Christ on earth. read more