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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
Thy teeth [are] like a flock [of sheep],.... That is, like the teeth of a flock of sheep; as her eyes were like the eyes of doves, and her hair like the hair of goats: and Galen long ago observed, that human teeth are much like the teeth of sheep, in figure, order, and structure, as well as are small and white; neatly set, innocent and harmless, not ravenous and voracious, cropping herbs and...
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
Thy teeth — Those parts of our spiritual being with which we feed upon Christ, and masticate and assimilate the Word: “Thy teeth “ — Son_4:2. Are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. We should seek so to feed upon the Word as to become fruitful by it. If we spiritually feed upon the flesh of Christ,...