Song of Solomon 4:6

“Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, etc.] Until the day of grace breaks on every elect sinner, and the shadows of darkness, ignorance, and unbelief, are in a great measure fled and gone; or until the everlasting day breaks, and there will be no more night, nor any darkness of affliction, nor any more desertion, doubts, and fears; see (<220217>Song of Solomon 2:17). They are the words of Christ, declaring whither he would go till that time came, as follows: I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense: the allusion may be to the mountains and hills where these odoriferous plants grew. It is said of Pompey the great, that when he passed over Lebanon…”

“Until - These words are uttered by the bride, Sol 2:17, and here returned by the bridegroom as an answer to that request. And this place may be understood of the day of glory, when all shadows and ordinances shall cease. To the hill - To my church upon earth, which was typified by the mountain of Moriah and the temple upon it. This in prophetic writings is called a mountain, and may well be called a mountain of myrrh and frankincense, both for the acceptable services which are there offered to God, and for the precious gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit, which are of a sweet smelling savour to God and men. Thus Christ directs believers, where they may find him, namely in his church and…”

“4:6 After mention of the breasts in the previous verse, the man’s exclamation that he wants to hurry to the mountain of myrrh and hill of frankincense is easily understood as his desire to be intimately close to this beautiful woman.”

“day: Sol 2:17; Mal 4:2; Luk 1:78; Pe2 1:19; Jo1 2:8; Rev 22:16 break: Heb. breathe the mountain: Exo 20:24, Exo 30:8, Exo 30:23-26, Exo 37:29; Deu 12:5, Deu 12:6; Psa 66:15; Isa 2:2; Mal 1:11; Luk 1:9, Luk 1:10; Rev 5:8 Song of Solomon (Canticles) 4:7”

“Shulamith replies to these words of praise: 6 Until the day cools and the shadows flee, I will go forth to the mountain of myrrh And to the hill of frankincense. All those interpreters who suppose these to be a continuation of Solomon's words, lose themselves in absurdities. Most of them understand the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense of Shulamith's attractions, praised in Sol 4:5, or of her beauty as a whole; but the figures would be grotesque (cf. on the other hand Sol 5:13), and אל לי אלך prosaic, wherefore it comes that the idea of betaking oneself away connects itself with לו הלך ( Gen 12:1; Exo 18:27), or that it yet preponderates therein ( Gen 22:2; Jer 5:5), and that,…”