Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Reply of the Bride. She presumes to call Him beloved, because He called her so first. Thou callest me "fair"; if I am so, it is not in myself; it is all from Thee (Psalms 90:17); but Thou art fair in Thyself (Psalms 45:2).
pleasant— (Proverbs 3:17) towards Thy friends (II Samuel 1:26).
bed . . . green—the couch of green grass on which the King and His bride sit to "rest at noon." Thus her prayer in Song of Solomon 1:7 is here granted; a green oasis in the desert, always found near waters in the East (Psalms 23:2; Isaiah 41:17-19). The scene is a kiosk, or summer house. Historically, the literal resting of the Babe of Beth-lehem and his parents on the green grass provided for cattle (Luke 2:7, Luke 2:12). In this verse there is an incidental allusion, in Song of Solomon 1:15, to the offering (Luke 2:24). So the "cedar and fir" ceiling refers to the temple (I Kings 5:6-10; I Kings 6:15-18); type of the heavenly temple (Revelation 21:22).
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Song of Solomon 1:17
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