2. Solomon (Song of Solomon 6:4-13; Son 7:1-9 ). His Musing. (a) Description of the Shulamite (Song of Solomon 6:4-9 a). (b) Effect on the Virgins of the Vision of Her (Song of Solomon 6:9-13; Song of Solomon 6:9-13). (c) Continued Description ( Son 7:1-9 ). read more
SECTION 6. The Restored Couple Rejoice In Each Other (Song of Solomon 7:1 to Song of Solomon 8:4 ). The restoration of the royal couple is now complete. Their harmony is fully restored, and they can once again enjoy their pure untrammeled love, back in the land of their original courtship. Once she returns from her walk the BELOVED continues to rejoice in his beautiful young wife. read more
The BELOVED continues. “How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights! This your stature is like to a palm-tree, And your breasts to its clusters. I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of its branches, Let your breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of your breath like apples, And your mouth like the best wine --.” He now describes her statuesque beauty and compares her with a palm tree, with her breasts like coconuts, so that he can shin up the tree... read more
Song of Solomon 6:13 to Song of Solomon 8:4 . The Dancing Bride and the Rapture of Love.— This section also is probably composed of different lyrics, though it is difficult to separate them; we have first the description of the loved one or bride in the act of dancing, then the comparison of her figure to a date palm, and finally a song of love and spring, concluding with the repetition of Song of Solomon 2:6 f. In Song of Solomon 7:1-Joshua : it is possible that we have a descriptive poem... read more
How fair and how pleasant art thou? it were infinite to reckon up all the particulars of thy beauty; in one word, thou art universally amiable beyond expression. For delights; for those various lovely features which are in thee, and for the great and manifold delights which are or may be enjoyed in conversing with thee. read more
NotesSong of Solomon 7:5 : The King is held in the galleries. ‘In the galleries.’ בָּרְהָטִים (ba-rehatim), plural of רַהַט, a gutter, rafter, gallery, a hair or ringlet; from רָהַט, an unused root, like the Aramaia רְהַט to run or flow. Here, according to most moderns, a ringlet or lock. A king is fettered in the locks EWALD, DE WETTE, DELITZSCH Her locks or curls viewed as nets or snares. ZÖCKLER. The king is held captive in the flowing ringlets. GOOD. Captivated by the locks. NOTES.... read more
NotesSong of Solomon 7:13. The mandrakes give a smell.‘Mandrakes.’ הַדּוּדָיִם ha-dudhaim; plural of דוּדַי a love-apple, from דּוּד to love. So GESENIUS and others. ‘A mandragora (Atropa mandragora, Linnœus); a plant with large leaves, like the beet; its root like that of a turnip, divided in the lower part, and somewhat resembling the human form; employed in preparing love philtres, as having a soporific power, and thought to possess a virtue in matters of love, which is still ascribed to it... read more
Chapter 7Now the daughters of Jerusalem address themselves to the Shulamite and they say,How beautiful are thy feet with shoes ( Song of Solomon 7:1 ),Or within thy sandals.O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies ( Song of Solomon 7:1-2 ).And I suppose that was complimentary to them. I'm not that kind of an... read more
Song of Solomon 7:1 . How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, oh prince’s daughter! We find the term “king’s daughter,” in Psalms 45:13. The church has assurance that the Lord her Maker is her husband. She and her children are the sole heirs of the kingdom. The “feet,” the walk of the church, is beautiful in all the paths of righteousness. Wisdom, virtue and glory, are greater beauties than the splendour and decorations of nuptial dresses. Delicacy, as well as propriety, obliges us to... read more
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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Song of Solomon 7:1-13
See Song of Solomon 5:1 ff for the passage comments with footnotes.Song of Solomon 7:1. Come back, come back, Shulamith, etc. As according to our understanding of Song of Solomon 7:11-12 Shulamith expresses in them her longing for the simpler circumstances of her native region and speaks of her elevation to the king’s throne as a distinction, which came to her without her knowledge, and contrary to her expectation, nothing is more natural than to conceive that she spoke this in a saddened and... read more