Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The "left and right hand," etc., occurred only once actually (Song of Solomon 2:6), and here optatively. Only at His first manifestation did the Church palpably embrace Him; at His second coming there shall be again sensible communion with Him. The rest in Song of Solomon 8:4, which is a spiritual realization of the wish in Song of Solomon 8:3 (I Peter 1:8), and the charge not to disturb it, close the first, second, and fourth canticles; not the third, as the bridegroom there takes charge Himself; nor the fifth, as, if repose formed its close, we might mistake the present state for our rest. The broken, longing close, like that of the whole Bible (Revelation 22:20), reminds us we are to be waiting for a Saviour to come. On "daughters of Jerusalem," see on Song of Solomon 7:10.
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