Song Of Solomon 4:10-11 - Exposition

How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all manner of spices! Thy lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. The expression of thy love, that is, the endearments, the embraces, are delightful. The allusion to the lips may be a mere amplification of the word "love," but it may also refer to speech, and we think of the nineteenth psalm and the description of the words and testimony of the Lord, "more to be desired than gold, and sweeter than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb" (cf. Genesis 27:27 ; Hosea 4:7 ; Psalms 45:9 ). The words of pure, inward joy flowing forth from the lips may be so described. So the Lord has said, in Isaiah 62:5 , that he rejoiceth over his people as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride.