Song 3 Commentary
We have mothers in the picture. The woman brings the man to her mother. Then we have the mention of the crown on the man’s heard placed on him by his mother.
Of course, the thought is that mothers are kings in this department – the department of life and the processes that attend life.
A mother has everything to do with childbearing. “Everything” includes the environment of preconception, conception itself, infant care, feeding, protection, teaching, and training.
Her job never stops. We have seen her here placing the crown on the grown Solomon’s head. They usher the new couple into its procreation function.
Fathers are not mentioned because the mandate of childbearing weighs heavily on the woman’s side. It’s human culture that kitchens are women’s departments because they sustain life as per the mandate of Genesis.
Life buds from an environment of love. Love and not just sex. That’s God’s will. Something is faulty at the factory when love goes missing!
The first section looks into the longings of the married woman. The gap that the woman feels when her man is absent can be very strong. This is for men. Don’t be absent. She has her feelings. Then comes the warning. The young woman must not arouse love because it isn’t an easy dog to tame.
We could loosely translate “love” as sex and have the following instruction: Don’t arouse it unless it can be satisfied in a godly way – within the marriage context.
Don’t arouse it by what you see on the screen, or hear from bad songs. The saint is expected to stay away from materials, habits, or places that are likely to arouse love before its appropriate time.
“Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.” Verse 5.
This could be advice streaming from an experienced woman to the young women – the daughters of Jerusalem. But it can also be a situation where the young woman is fending off temptations from her peers. They should not mislead her into mistimed and sinful sex.
The second section appears as a moment of pride and admiration. The woman is all smiles as she sees her man approaching. Solomon’s kingly position is used to transmit expectations.
The New Testament saint knows a godly man sits in the position of a royal priest. It is a combination of kingly splendor and priestly holiness. Does the man display these qualities as he shows up at home?
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9
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