Ancient commentators, both Jewish and Christian, have regarded this section and the next (Song of Solomon 1:2–15:7) as expressing the "…

Company of horses. —So Vulgate, equitatus, but Heb. susah is more properly mare, as in Septuagint, Τῇ ἵππῳ μ…

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice…

I have compared you, O my love
The church having taken the direction of Christ, had now found him, and was with him;…

The Bridegroom gives high praise to His spouse. In the sight of Christ, believers are the excellent of the earth, equipped to be instruments for pr…