Section 439
II. It will be proper to take notice of the person to whom this speech is directed, and that is Christ
And the form of speech here used, is also worthy our regard; here is no particular mention made of any person; no one particularly named, whose company she desired; but only him, let him kiss me, etc. it is a relative without an antecedent, of which we have many instances in scripture, as Psalm 87:1, Isaiah 53:2, Lamentations 3:1 unless we suppose that the antecedent to it is Solomon, in verse 1, let him, that is, Solomon, or Christ, who is Solomon's antitype, whose song this is, and who is the subject of it; Let him, I say, kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; though the connection seems rather to be with the thoughts of her heart, than with any words before expressed: she had had him so much in her thoughts, and her love was so fixed on him, she knew him so well, and had had so much converse with him, that she thought there was no need to mention his name; but that every one must very well know who she designed; as Mary Magdalen, at Christ's sepulcher, when Jesus said unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?" she supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, "sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away," (John 20:15). Suppose he had been the gardener, how should he have known who this him was she meant? But she was much in the same frame as the church is here, who speaks of Christ as if there was no other in the world besides him; and indeed he is a nonsuch, the most eminent person in the world, in the believer's esteem; whose language is, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee," (Psalm 73:25). Christ then is the person here spoken of, whom she intends, and to whom she directs her speech.