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The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:16

Altogether lovely. We apply these words to the Lord Jesus Christ, and affirm that they are true of him. May he grant us grace to see that they are so! And we remark— I. THAT WHETHER WE BELIEVE THEM OR NOT , THEY ARE ASSUREDLY TRUE . All generations have confessed them true. The hero of one age is not the hero of another; but Christ is the Beloved of all ages. Abraham saw his "day and was glad." Prophets and psalmists beheld him, and to them all it was a beatific... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:16

Altogether lovely. In the verses from the tenth to the sixteenth, the bride sets forth in detail the excellences and the attractiveness of her spouse. In similitudes according with Oriental imagination she describes the charm of his person, and accounts for the fascination he exercises. And she sums up the characterization by the assertion that he is "altogether lovely"—"totus est desiderabilis, totus est amor." Augustine, in language dictated by the fervour of his heart, expresses the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:10

My beloved is white and ruddy - Compare 1 Samuel 16:12; Daniel 7:9. The complexion most admired in youth. Jewish interpreters remark that he who is elsewhere called “the Ancient of Days” is here described as the Ever-Young. “White in His virgin-purity,” says Jerome, “and ruddy in His Passion.”The chiefest among ten thousand - literally, “a bannered one among a myriad;” hence one signalized, a leader of ten thousand warriors. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:11

His head is as the most fine gold - Perhaps in the sense of noble and precious as the finest gold. Lamentations 4:2.Bushy - Waving like branches of the palm. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:12

Or, His eyes are doves. The comparison is to doves seen by streams of water washing in milk (i. e., milk-white), and sitting on fulness (i. e., on the full or abundant water-flood).Fitly set - This rendering supposes that the eyes within their sockets are compared to precious stones set in the foil of a ring (see the margin); but the other rendering is preferable. The milk-white doves themselves, sitting by full streams of water, or reflected in their flittings athwart the glassy surface,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:13

Sweet flowers - Better as in the margin, i. e., plants with fragrant leaves and flowers trained on trellis-work.Like lilies - Are lilies dropping liquid myrrh (see the Song of Solomon 5:5 note). Perhaps the fragrance of the flowers, or the delicate curl of the lip-like petals, is here the point of comparison, rather than the color. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:14

His hands ... - Are golden rings or cylinders. The fingers of the bent or closed hand are compared to a massive ring or set of rings; or, if outstretched or straightened, to a row of golden rods or cylinders.The beryl - The “tarshish” (compare Exodus 28:20), probably the chrysolite of the ancients (so called from its gold color), the modern topaz.His belly ... - His body (the Hebrew term applies to the whole body, from the shoulders to the thighs) is a piece of ivory workmanship overlaid with... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:15

His countenance - Or, his appearance (his whole port and mien, but especially head and countenance) “is as the Lebanon.” read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:16

He is altogether lovely - literally, the whole of him desires or delights; the plural substantive expressing the notion of the superlative. Theodoret, applying to our Lord the whole description, interprets well its last term: “Why should I endeavor to express His beauty piecemeal when He is in Himself and altogether the One longed-for, drawing all to love, compelling all to love, and inspiring with a longing (for His company) not only those who see, but also those who hear?” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Song of Solomon 5:10-13

Song of Solomon 5:10-13. My beloved is white and ruddy The white may denote his pure and spotless innocence, and the ruddy colour, his bloody passion. His head is as the most fine gold It shines like gold, by reason of the crown of pure gold upon his head. We need not aim at a distinct application of this and the following particulars unto some special excellences of Christ, because such things are mere conjectures, and the only design of this description is to set forth the beauty of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Song of Solomon 5:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 5:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Song of Solomon 5:10-13

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