6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. …
So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The title which Jesus Christ here gives to the church is new: O prince’s daughter ! agreeing with Ps. 45:13; where she is called the king’s daughter . She is so in respect of her new birth, born from above, begotten of God, and his workmanship, bearing the image of the King of kings, and guided by his Spirit. She is so by marriage; Christ, by betrothing her to himself, though he found her mean and…
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