Chapter 686 of 1261

Song of Solomon 6:4

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah; comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

These are the words of Christ; who, having absented himself from his church for a considerable time, to show his resentment of her former carriage to him, now manifests himself unto her, and declares that he has the same love and affection for her as ever he had, and therefore addresses her with this title or character, "O my love!" nay, that she was as beautiful and comely in his eye as ever she was, notwithstanding all her failings and infirmities; which beauty of hers he describes first more generally in this verse, and then more particularly in the following ones. In this general description of her beauty are three parts: "that she is as beautiful as Tirzah."

I. He says,

II. "Comely as Jerusalem."

III. "Terrible as an army with banners."

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