Song of Solomon 2:17

“Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, etc.] Which may be connected with (<220216>Song of Solomon 2:16); either with the former part, “my beloved is mine”, etc. (<220216>Song of Solomon 2:16); and then the sense is, as long as night and day continue, and God’s covenant with both stands sure; so long union to Christ, and covenant interest in him, will abide: or with the latter part, “he feedeth among the lilies until”, etc. even until his second coming: or with the next clause in this verse, turn, my beloved; and so is a prayer for Christ’s speedy coming to her, and continued presence with her, until the day should break: which may be understood either of the Gospel day made by the…”

“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…”

“Until - Until the morning of that blessed day of the general resurrection, when all the shadows, not only of ignorance, and sin, and calamity, but even of outward administrations, shall cease. Turn - Return to me. For although Christ had come to her, and she had gladly received him, yet he was gone again, as is here implied, and evidently appears from the following verse. Which sudden change is very agreeable to the state of God's people in this world, where they are subject to frequent changes. A roe - In swiftness; make haste to help me. Of Bether - A place in the land of promise, where it seems those creatures were in great abundance. Next: Song of Solomon (Canticles) Chapter 3”

“the day: Sol 4:6; Luk 1:78; Rom 13:12; Pe2 1:19 the shadows: Heb 8:5, Heb 10:1 beloved: Sol 2:9, Sol 8:14 Bether: or, division Next: Song of Solomon (Canticles) Chapter 3”

“Shulamith now further relates, in a dramatic, lively manner, what she said to her beloved after she had saluted him in a song: 17 Till the day cools and the shadows flee away, Turn; make haste, my beloved, Like a gazelle or a young one of the hinds On the craggy mountains. With the perf., עד שׁ (cf. אם עד, Gen 24:33) signifies, till something is done; with the fut., till something will be done. Thus: till the evening comes - and, therefore, before it comes - may he do what she requires of him. Most interpreters explain סב, verte te, with the supplement ad me; according to which Jerome, Castell., and others translate by revertere. But Psa 71:21 does not warrant this rendering; and if…”