Teks -- The Song of Songs 2:9 (NET)

2:9 My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice.

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Wesley: Sos 2:9 - Like a roe

In swiftness. He is coming to me with all speed and will not tarry a moment beyond the proper season.

Wesley: Sos 2:9 - He standeth behind

And while he doth for wise reasons forbear to come; he is not far from us. Both this and the following phrases may denote the obscure manner of Christ's manifesting himself to his people, under the law, in comparison of his discoveries in the gospel.

Wesley: Sos 2:9 - The window

This phrase, and that through the lattess, intimate that the church does indeed see Christ, but, as through a glass, darkly, as it is said even of gospel - revelations, 1Co 13:12, which was much more true of legal administrations.

JFB: Sos 2:9 - he standeth

After having bounded over the intervening space like a roe. He often stands near when our unbelief hides Him from us (Gen 28:16; Rev 3:14-20). His usual way; long promised and expected; sudden at last: so, in visiting the second temple (Mal 3:1); so at Pentecost (Act 2:1-2); so in visiting an individual soul, Zaccheus (Luk 19:5-6; Joh 3:8); and so, at the second coming (Mat 24:48, Mat 24:50; 2Pe 3:4, 2Pe 3:10). So it shall be at His second coming (1Th 5:2-3).

JFB: Sos 2:9 - wall

Over the cope of which He is first seen; next, He looks through (not forth; for He is outside) at the windows, glancing suddenly and stealthily (not as English Version, "showing Himself") through the lattice. The prophecies, types, &c., were lattice glimpses of Him to the Old Testament Church, in spite of the wall of separation which sin had raised (Joh 8:56); clearer glimpses were given by John Baptist, but not unclouded (Joh 1:26). The legal wall of partition was not to be removed until His death (Eph 2:14-15; Heb 10:20). Even now, He is only seen by faith, through the windows of His Word and the lattice of ordinances and sacraments (Luk 24:35; Joh 14:21); not full vision (1Co 13:12); an incentive to our looking for His second coming (Isa 33:17; Tit 2:13).

Clarke: Sos 2:9 - He standeth behind our wall

He standeth behind our wall - This may refer to the wall by which the house was surrounded, the space between which and the house constituted the court. He was seen first behind the wall, and then in the court; and lastly came to the window of his bride’ s chamber.

TSK: Sos 2:9 - like // he standeth // showing

like : Son 2:17, Son 8:14

he standeth : 1Co 13:12; 2Co 3:13-18; Eph 2:14, Eph 2:15; Col 2:17; Heb 9:8, Heb 9:9; Heb 10:1, Heb 10:19, Heb 10:20

showing : Heb. flourishing, Luk 24:35; Joh 5:39, Joh 5:46, Joh 12:41; 1Pe 1:10-12; Rev 19:10

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Poole: Sos 2:9 - Like a roe or a young hart // He standeth behind our wall // He looketh forth // At the window // through the lattice

Like a roe or a young hart either,

1. In loveliness. Or rather,

2. In swiftness, by comparing this verse with the former. The swiftness of roes is noted 2Sa 2:18 1Ch 12:8 . He is coming to me with all speed, and will not tarry a moment beyond the appointed and proper season.

He standeth behind our wall and whilst he doth for wise and just reasons forbear to come, he is not far from us. Though he be not yet come into the door of our house, yet he stands behind the wall of our house, and is always at hand, to give me that succour and comfort which I do or may need or desire. Both this and the following phrases seem to note the obscure and imperfect manner and degree of Christ’ s manifesting himself to his people, either,

1. Under the law, in comparison of his discoveries in the gospel. Or,

2. In this life, in comparison of what he will do in the future life.

He looketh forth from his high and heavenly palace, towards me, to watch over me, and refresh me with the prospect of his favour.

At the window: this phrase, and that,

through the lattice intimate that the church doth indeed see Christ, but, as through a glass, darkly , as it is said even of gospel revelations, 1Co 13:12 , and was much more true of legal administrations.

Haydock: Sos 2:9 - Hart // Wall

Hart, (Proverbs v. 18.) which is swifter that the dogs. (Xenophon, Cuneg.) ---

This animal is said to destroy serpents, as Christ did the power of the devil. (Theodoret) ---

Wall. Under the old law, Christ was only seen in figure. He manifested himself in the new. Yet our sins separate him from us, Isaias lix. 2. He is concealed in the sacred mysteries, (Calmet) and his humanity keeps from our sight the glory of his divinity, which alone can impart full content. (St. Ambrose; St. Bernard) ---

He shewed a glimpse of it at his transfiguration, and by his miracles. (Menochius)

Gill: Sos 2:9 - My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart // behold, he standeth behind our wall // he looketh forth at the windows // showing himself through the lattice

My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart,.... The church, upon the swift and speedy approach of Christ unto her, compares him to these creatures; which are well known for their swiftness ^l in running, and agility in leaping, as before observed: and, besides these things, Christ may be compared to them on other accounts; they are pleasant and lovely, choice and valuable; bear an antipathy to serpents, which they easily overcome; are very good for food, and very agreeable, and are long lived creatures ^m; Christ is lovely and amiable in his person, and high in the esteem of his divine Father, angels and men; is choice and excellent in his nature, offices, and grace; bears an antipathy to the old serpent, the devil, whose works and powers he came to destroy, and has got an entire victory over them; and is very agreeable food to faith; his flesh is meat indeed, and the more so through his sufferings and death; as the flesh of those creatures is said to be the more tender and agreeable, by being hunted; and Christ, though dead, is alive, and lives for evermore;

behold, he standeth behind our wall; not the middle wall of the ceremonial law, behind which, Christ, under the Old Testament dispensation, stood, showing himself to believers; nor the wall of our humanity he partook of, when he came in the flesh, and under which his glorious deity was in some measure covered and hid; but rather the wall of our hearts, Jer 4:19; the hardness, infidelity, and carnal reasonings of it, which are so many walls of separation between Christ and his people; behind which he stands, showing his resentment of them, and in order to demolish them, and get admittance: he is represented here, as nearer than when she first saw him, even at her very home;

he looketh forth at the windows; this is coming nearer still; for, by the manner of the expression, it seems that he was within doors, since he is said, not to look through the windows, but to look forth at them, meaning the ordinances; which are that to the church as windows to a house, the means of letting in light into the souls of men; and where Christ shows himself, in his glory and beauty, as kings and great personages look out at windows to show themselves to their people: though Christ may also be said to look in at, those windows, to observe the behaviour of his people in his house and ordinances, with what attention, affection, faith, and reverence, they wait upon him in them;

showing himself through the lattice; by which may be meant the same things, only a larger and clearer discovery of Christ in them, of which ordinances are the means; and yet, unless Christ shows himself through them, he cannot be seen in them: and a "behold" being prefixed to these gradual discoveries of himself, show them to be wonderful! a glance of him behind the wall is surprising; his looking in at the windows still more so; but his showing himself, in all his glories and excellencies, through the lattice, is enough to throw into the greatest rapture, to fill with joy unspeakable and full of glory! Some render the word "flourishing" ⁿ, like a rose or lily, or like a vine, or jessamine; which grow up by a window or lattice, and, seen through them, took very pleasant and delightful. But the allusion is rather to the quick sighted roe, or young hart; which, as it is remarkable for its swiftness, referred to, Son 2:8, so for the sharpness of its sight; Pliny ^o says it is never dim sighted; it has its name "dorcas", in Greek, from its sight.