Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
(See on Song of Solomon 2:17). As she began with longing for His first coming (Song of Solomon 1:2), so she ends with praying for His second coming (Psalms 130:6; Philippians 3:20-21; Revelation 22:20). MOODY STUART makes the roe upon spices to be the musk deer. As there are four gardens, so four mountains, which form not mere images, as Gilead, Carmel, etc., but part of the structure of the Song: (1) Bether, or division (Song of Solomon 2:17), God's justice dividing us from God. (2) Those "of leopards" (Song of Solomon 4:8), sin, the world, and Satan. (3) That "of myrrh and aloes" (Song of Solomon 4:6, Song of Solomon 4:14), the sepulchre of Calvary. (4) Those "of spices," here answering to "the hill of frankincense" (Song of Solomon 4:6), where His soul was for the three days of His death, and heaven, where He is a High Priest now, offering incense for us on the fragrant mountain of His own finished work (Hebrews 4:14, Hebrews 7:25; Revelation 8:3-4); thus He surmounts the other three mountains, God's justice, our sin, death. The mountain of spices is as much greater than our sins, as heaven is higher than earth (Psalms 103:11). The abrupt, unsatisfied close with the yearning prayer for His visible coming shows that the marriage is future, and that to wait eagerly for it is our true attitude (1 Corinthians 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 3:12).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 2:17
Song of Solomon 5:1
Song of Solomon 6:2
Song of Solomon 8:2
Song of Solomon 8:5
Revelation 22:20
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