Song of Solomon 1:10
Song of Solomon 1:10
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Christ in these words continues to give an account of the church's beauty and glory; and that either in opposition to what she had said in verses 5 & 6, and assures her, that her cheeks and neck were not so black as she imagined; but were like the blushing cheeks of a beautiful woman, adorned with jewels, and her fair neck adorned with bracelets, necklaces and chains of gold or pearl (see Ezekiel 16:11, 12); or else he continues the metaphor used in the preceding verse, where he compares her to a "company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots" whose bridles being richly adorned, having chains of gold hung about their necks, as the camels of the kings of Midian had (Judges 8:26), gloriously set forth the beauty of the church; and perhaps, the church's glory under the Old Testament dispensation is represented in this verse, and a farther increase and display of it under the New Testament dispensation promised in the text. And here,
I. Her cheeks are said to be "comely, with rows of jewels."