Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
even shorn—the Hebrew is translated (I Kings 6:25), "of one size"; so the point of comparison to teeth is their symmetry of form; as in "came up from the washing," the spotless whiteness; and in "twins," the exact correspondence of the upper and lower teeth: and in "none barren," none wanting, none without its fellow. Faith is the tooth with which we eat the living bread (John 6:35, John 6:54). Contrast the teeth of sinners (Psalms 57:4; Proverbs 30:14); also their end (Psalms 3:7; Matthew 25:30). Faith leads the flock to the washing (Zechariah 13:1; I Corinthians 6:11; Titus 3:5).
none . . . barren— (II Peter 1:8). He who is begotten of God begets instrumentally other sons of God.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Song of Solomon 4:2:
Song of Solomon 4:1
Song of Solomon 4:1
Song of Solomon 6:6
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