Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(CANTICLE V)—FROM THE CALL OF THE GENTILES TO THE CLOSE OF REVELATION. (Song of Solomon 8:5-14)
Who is this—Words of the daughters of Jerusalem, that is, the churches of Judea; referring to Paul, on his return from Arabia ("the wilderness"), whither he had gone after conversion (Galatians 1:15-24).
I raised thee . . . she . . . bare thee— (Acts 26:14-16). The first words of Jesus Christ to the bride since her going to the garden of nuts (Song of Solomon 6:9-10); so His appearance to Paul is the only one since His ascension, Song of Solomon 8:13 is not an address of Him as visible: her reply implies He is not visible (I Corinthians 15:8). Spiritually, she was found in the moral wilderness (Ezekiel 16:5; Hosea 13:5); but now she is "coming up from" it (Jeremiah 2:2; Hosea 2:14), especially in the last stage of her journey, her conscious weakness casting itself the more wholly on Jesus Christ (II Corinthians 12:9). "Raised" (Ephesians 2:1-7). Found ruined under the forbidden tree (Genesis 3:22-24); restored under the shadow of Jesus Christ crucified, "the green tree" (Luke 23:31), fruit-"bearing" by the cross (Isaiah 53:11; John 12:24). "Born again by the Holy Ghost" "there" (Ezekiel 16:3-6). In this verse, her dependence, in the similar verse, Song of Solomon 3:6, etc., His omnipotence to support her, are brought out (Deuteronomy 33:26).
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