Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
as the eyes of doves—rather, "as doves" (Psalms 68:13); bathing in "the rivers"; so combining in their "silver" feathers the whiteness of milk with the sparkling brightness of the water trickling over them (Matthew 3:16). The "milk" may allude to the white around the pupil of the eye. The "waters" refer to the eye as the fountain of tears of sympathy (Ezekiel 16:5-6; Luke 19:41). Vivacity, purity, and love, are the three features typified.
fitly set—as a gem in a ring; as the precious stones in the high priest's breastplate. Rather, translate as Vulgate (the doves), sitting at the fulness of the stream; by the full stream; or, as MAURER (the eyes) set in fulness, not sunk in their sockets (Revelation 5:6), ("seven," expressing full perfection), (Zechariah 3:9; Zechariah 4:10).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Song of Solomon 5:12:
Song of Solomon 5:11
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