John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Song of Solomon 8:4
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up , nor awake my love, until he please. The phrase, "by the roes and by the hinds of the field", used in Song of Solomon 2:7 ; is here omitted; not as if the charge was less vehement and earnest here, for the form of expostulation seems rather to express more earnestness: for the words may be rendered, "why will ye", or "why should ye stir up, and why awake my love?" F9 מה , "cur", Montanus, Schmidt. being... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Song of Solomon 8:1-4
Here, I. The spouse wishes for a constant intimacy and freedom with the Lord Jesus. She was already betrothed to him, but, the nuptials being yet not solemnized and published (the bride, the Lamb's wife, will not be completely ready till his second coming), she was obliged to be shy and to keep at some distance; she therefore wishes she may be taken for his sister, he having called her so (Song 5:1), and that she might have the same chaste and innocent familiarity with him that a sister has... read more