Song of Solomon 5:6

“I opened to my beloved, etc.] Which was what he desired, and was done in virtue of his putting in his hand by the hole of the door; or by the exertion of his efficacious grace, working in her both to will and to do, without which it would not have been done; namely, her heart dilated, the desires and affections of her soul enlarged towards Christ, and every grace drawn forth and exercised on him; and though the heart of a believer is sometimes shut to Christ, yet when it is opened, it is only patent to him; the church thought Christ was still at the door, and might be the more confirmed in it by what she found on the handles of the lock; but lo her mistake, but my beloved had withdrawn…”

“With - drawn - Denied me his comfortable presence, as a just punishment for my former neglect. Faded - Heb. went out of me: I fainted and was ready to die away, for those endearing expressions related, Sol 5:2, which then I did not heed. I sought - By diligent enquiry and importunate prayer. Song of Solomon (Canticles) 5:7”

“but my: Psa 30:7; Isa 8:17, Isa 12:1, Isa 50:2, Isa 54:6-8; Hos 5:6, Hos 5:15; Mat 15:22-28; Rev 3:19 my soul: Sol 5:2, Sol 5:4; Gen 42:28; Sa2 16:10; Psa 69:3, Psa 77:3; Isa 57:16; Mat 26:75; Mar 14:72; Luk 22:61, Luk 22:62 I sought: Sol 3:1, Sol 3:2; Sa1 28:6; Psa 22:1, Psa 22:2, Psa 28:1, Psa 80:4, Psa 88:9-14; Isa 58:2-4, Isa 58:7-9; Lam 3:8; Zac 7:13 Song of Solomon (Canticles) 5:7”

“6 I opened to my beloved; And my beloved had withdrawn, was gone: My soul departed when he spake - I sought him, and found him not; I called him, and he answered me not. As the disciples at Emmaus, when the Lord had vanished from the midst of them, said to one another: Did not our heart burn within us when He spake with us? so Shulamith says that when he spake, i.e., sought admission to her, she was filled with alarm, and almost terrified to death. Love-ecstasy (ἐκστῆναι, as contrast to γενέσθαι ἐν ἑαυτῷ) is not here understood, for in such a state she would have flown to meet him; but a sinking of the soul, such as is described by Terence (And. I 5. 16): "Oratio haec me miseram…”