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Christ's Love Toward the Church.
The King's wonderful description of the bride's beauty causes the "daughters of Jerusalem" to call out in admiration:
v. 10. Who is she that looketh forth, suddenly arising from the background, as the morning, like the rising dawn, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners, moving forward with victorious power? The answer of the bride is given with becoming humility:
v. 11. I went down into the garden of nuts, the beautiful park of the King, to see the fruits of the valley, or "to inspect the shrubs of the valley," and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
v. 12. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib, literally, "I knew it not that my soul had made me chariots of my noble people," that the King had displayed her pomp and power before the whole world. But the "daughters of Jerusalem" now clamor to see her beauty,
v. 13. Return, return, O Shula-mite, so they may observe her from all sides; return, return, that we may look upon thee, for they had never realized before what beauty was found in this bride of the King. Now the inspired author inserts a question, to test the interest which the "daughters of Jerusalem" may have in the bride. What will ye see in the Shulamite? And they promptly answer, As it were the company of two armies, that is, the angel hosts of Mahanaim, Gen_32:2. They regard the bride to be as magnificent and stately as the angel hosts whom Jacob saw near Peniel, between Jabbok and the Jordan.
Here we see the bride, filled with new courage and zeal for her work, ready to fulfill her ministry, imposing and impressive, even to outsiders, in her victorious progress, as the praise given her shows. She, however, disclaims any special merit, stating that it was reward enough for her to be permitted to see and admire the work of God's hands. Yet the others insist that the work of the Church, if rightly viewed, reminds them of the blessed ministry of angels, with whose assistance the messengers of the Church carry out the duty entrusted to them. That is the glory connected with the work of the Church at all times.