The song begins with two stanzas in praise of the king (who is now absent), sung by a chorus of virgins from the royal household. Commentators, bot…

Love. — Margin: loves, that is, caresses or kisses, as the parallelism shows. The Septuagint, followed by the Vulgate, re…

The song of songs, which is Solomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: (Song of Solomon 1:1–2)

No name. I…

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth
That is, Solomon; Christ, the antitype of Solomon, the church's beloved…

The church, or rather the believer, speaks here in the character of the spouse of the King, the Messiah. The kisses of his mouth mean those assuran…