Song of Solomon 2:13

“The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, etc.] Another sign of spring being come, nay, of its being pretty much advanced, since Christ makes this a token of summer being at hand, (<402432>Matthew 24:32). Theopompusf150 speaks of figs in the middle of the spring. This tree puts forth its fruit at once, and does not flower or blossomf151, wherefore (<350317>Habakkuk 3:17) is wrongly translated; (see Gill on “<350317>Habakkuk 3:17”): though Arianusf152 speaks of its flowering: Aben Ezra thinks the word signifies the sweetening of the figs, and so points at the time when they are sweet and eatable. By the “fig tree” may be meant the saints putting forth their grace in exercise on Christ, who…”

“The bride relates to the chorus a visit which the beloved had paid her some time previously in her native home. He on a fair spring morning solicits her company. The bride, immersed in rustic toils, refuses for the present, but confessing her love, bids him return at the cool of day. It is a spring-time of affection which is here described, still earlier than that of the former chapter, a day of pure first-love, in which, on either side, all royal state and circumstance is forgotten or concealed. Hence, perhaps, the annual recitation of the Song of Songs by the synagogue with each return of spring, at the Feast of Passover, and special interpretations of this passage by Hebrew doctors, as…”

“Her figs - Which it shoots forth in the spring. Song of Solomon (Canticles) 2:14”

“fig tree: Sol 6:11, Sol 7:8, Sol 7:11-13; Isa 18:5, Isa 55:10, Isa 55:11, Isa 61:11; Hos 14:6; Hag 2:19; Luk 13:6, Luk 13:7 Arise: Sol 2:10; Luk 19:42; Co2 5:20, Co2 6:1, Co2 6:2 Song of Solomon (Canticles) 2:14”