Song of Solomon 7:11

“Come, my beloved, etc.] The word come is often used by Christ, and here by the church, in imitation of him; (see <220210>Song of Solomon 2:10,13 <220408>Song of Solomon 4:8). This call is the call of the church upon Christ, to make good his promise, (<220708>Song of Solomon 7:8); and is an earnest desire after the presence of Christ, and the manifestations of his love; which desire is increased the more it is enjoyed; and it shows the sense she had of her own insufficiency for the work she was going about: she knew that visiting the several congregations of the saints would be to little purpose, unless Christ was with her, and therefore she urges him to it; not that he was backward and…”

“Go forth - That being retired from the crowd, we may more freely and sweetly converse together. Song of Solomon (Canticles) 7:12”

“7:11-12 The woman suggests that they go together to check on the status of the vineyards and make love while there.”

“let us go: Sol 1:4, Sol 2:10-13, Sol 4:8 Song of Solomon (Canticles) 7:12”

“11 Up, my lover, we will go into the country, Lodge in the villages. Hitzig here begins a new scene, to which he gives the superscription: "Shulamith making haste to return home with her lov." The advocate of the shepherd-hypothesis thinks that the faithful Shulamith, after hearing Solomon's panegyric, shakes her head and says: "I am my beloved's." To him she calls, "Come, my beloved;" for, as Ewald seeks to make this conceivable: the golden confidence of her near triumph lifts her in spirit forthwith above all that is present and all that is actual; only to him may she speak; and as if she were half here and half already there, in the midst of her rural home along with him, she says, "Let…”