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Song of Solomon 8:3

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

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His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. That is, when she should have the presence of Christ in her mother's house. Or the words are a petition that so it might be, "let his left hand", c. (g) or a declaration of what she did enjoy, "his left hand is under my head", &c. (h),

[See comments on So 2:6].

(g) Tigurine version, Marckius, some in Michaelis. (h) Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

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