Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
A key in the East is usually a piece of wood with pegs in it corresponding to small holes in a wooden bolt within, and is put through a hole in the door, and thus draws the bolt. So Jesus Christ "puts forth His hand (namely, His Spirit, Ezekiel 3:14), by (Hebrew, 'from,' so in Song of Solomon 2:9) the hole"; in "chastening" (Psalms 38:2; Revelation 3:14-22, singularly similar to this passage), and other unexpected ways letting Himself in (Luke 22:61-62).
bowels . . . moved for him—It is His which are first troubled for us, and which cause ours to be troubled for Him (Jeremiah 31:20; Hosea 11:8).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Song of Solomon 5:4:
Song of Solomon 3:1
Song of Solomon 5:2
Revelation 3:20
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