Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
by the roes--not an oath but a solemn charge, to act as cautiously as the hunter would with the wild roes, which are proverbially timorous; he must advance with breathless circumspection, if he is to take them; so he who would not lose Jesus Christ and His Spirit, which is easily grieved and withdrawn, must be tender of conscience and watchful (Ezekiel 16:43; Ephesians 4:30; Ephesians 5:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:19). In Margin, title of Psalms 22:1, Jesus Christ is called the "Hind of the morning," hunted to death by the dogs (compare Song of Solomon 2:8-9, where He is represented as bounding on the hills, Psalms 18:33). Here He is resting, but with a repose easily broken (Zephaniah 3:17). It is thought a gross rudeness in the East to awaken one sleeping, especially a person of rank.
my love--in Hebrew, feminine for masculine, the abstract for concrete, Jesus Christ being the embodiment of love itself (Song of Solomon 3:5; Song of Solomon 8:7), where, as here, the context requires it to be applied to Him, not her. She too is "love" (Song of Solomon 7:6), for His love calls forth her love. Presumption in the convert is as grieving to the Spirit as despair. The lovingness and pleasantness of the hind and roe (Proverbs 5:19) is included in this image of Jesus Christ.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 3:5
1 Corinthians 16:22
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