Song of Solomon 5:9

“What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? etc.] The same title Christ gives her, (<220108>Song of Solomon 1:8); and from whom these daughters seem to have taken it; and, in giving it to her, might be assured they were right, since he, who knew her perfectly well, so calls her; in what sense she was so fair, (see Gill on “<220108>Song of Solomon 1:8”): and this they used, to show their esteem of her, and that they were willing to do all the service they could for her; and what made them so attentive to her charge, and so desirous of knowing her beloved; since they concluded he must be some extraordinary person that one so fair and beautiful as she was should…”

“Section 5:9–6:3: The bride’s commendation of the beloved. In the allegorical interpretations of Jewish expositors all is here spoken by exiled Israel of the Holy One whose praise she sings “by the waters of Babylon” Psalms 137:1. Christian interpreters apply the description directly to the Incarnate Son, partly in His Eternal Godhead, but chiefly in His risen and glorified Humanity. return to 'Top of Page'”

“What is - Wherein doth he excel them? Believers might ask this, that they might be more fully informed of it. Song of Solomon (Canticles) 5:10”

“What is: Isa 53:2; Mat 16:13-17, Mat 21:10; Joh 1:14; Co2 4:3-6 O thou: Sol 1:8, Sol 6:1, Sol 6:9, Sol 6:10; Psa 45:13, Psa 87:3 Song of Solomon (Canticles) 5:10”

“When, therefore, they put to her the question: 9 What is thy beloved before another (beloved), Thou fairest of women? What is thy beloved before another (beloved), That thou dost adjure us thus? the question thus asked cannot proceed from ignorance; it can only have the object of giving them the opportunity of hearing from Shulamith's own mouth and heart her laudatory description of him, whom they also loved, although they were not deemed worthy to stand so near to him as she did who was thus questioned. Bttch. and Ewald, secs. 325a, 326a, interpret the מן in מדּור partitively: quid amati (as in Cicero: quod hominis) amatus tuus; but then the words would have been מה־מדוד דודך, if such a…”