In this chapter we have, I. Christ’s gracious acceptance of the invitation which his church had given him, and the kind visit which he made to her, Song 5:1. II.

These words are Christ’s answer to the church’s prayer in the close of the foregoing chapter, Let my beloved come into his garden; here he has come, and lets her know it.

In this song of loves and joys we have here a very melancholy scene; the spouse here speaks, not to her beloved (as before, for he has withdrawn), but of him, and it is a sad story she tells of her own folly and ill conduct towards him, notwithstanding his kindness, and of the just rebukes she fell…

Here is, I. The question which the daughters of Jerusalem put to the spouse concerning her beloved, in answer to the charge she had given them, Song 5:9. Observe, 1.