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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 4 In this chapter is contained a large commendation of the church's beauty by Christ; first, more particularly, by an enumeration of several parts, as her eyes, hair, teeth, lips, temples, neck, and breasts, So 4:1; and more generally, So 4:7; And having observed where he himself was determined to go, he invites her to go with him; which he enforces, partly from...
John Gill
How fair is thy love, [my] sister, my spouse!.... Of these titles, [See comments on So 4:8]; [See comments on So 4:9]; and of the love of the church to Christ, [See comments on So 1:3]; here said to be "fair", lovely and delightful, grateful and acceptable; as it is to Christ, in the several acts and effects of it, and therefore the word is plural, "thy loves" (r); being exceeding beautiful in...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself (ch. iii. 11), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions of it, concluding her fair, all fair, ver. 1-5 and again, ver. 7. II. He retires himself, and invites her with him, from the mountains of terror to those of delight, ver. 6, 8. III. He professes his love to her and his delight in her affection to him, ver....
Charles H. Spurgeon
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! Hearest thou that, O Spouse of Christ? Thy love is often very cold, and very feeble, and even at the best it is not what thou wouldst have it to be, nor what it ought to be; yet Jesus values it highly, and says, “How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! “ Son_4:10. How much better is thy love than wine! Yet he knows what the best wine is like, for he...