Song 7 Commentary
The groom speaks at length. He describes his bride with parameters of beauty, elegance, and attraction. An important space for the woman, exclusively.
Could there be something special about this description of the bride that could possibly explain the woman’s role in creation?
Consider how the bride described her groom in Chapter 5. Radiant and ruddy; outstanding; purest gold; myrrh; topaz; ivory; and lapis lazuli. The description rings of value, commerce, industry, prosperity, and excellence of execution.
If the world consisted of males only, it would be functional, but we doubt if buildings would be painted!
There is definitely an important and significant difference in the roles or mandates of the genders. Perversion means everything has swapped places and roles – all contrary to the original design.
Look again at the description of a man. His role is functional. The woman’s role is “attraction”, being spotless – everything to do with her anatomy.
His beauty is functional. He performs. Value addition. Prosperity underlines his role.
The bride of Christ is, on the other hand, attractive at her core. Spotless. And here is something interesting: she isn’t spotless by artificial beautification. The Creator God makes her this way at the factory! The curves of the woman in this chapter are all natural endowments!
Salvation is the work of grace! So we pray for God’s grace to abound!
The first verse refers to the bride as the prince’s daughter. Of course, we know the groom is pictured as a king or someone with a kingly status. The bride, on the other hand, has been pictured as an ordinary working woman. If anything, someone darkened by the sun as a consequence of work.
Important: Her relationship with the groom elevates her status to a prince’s daughter. Her father becomes a prince! A man must examine his view of his bride and her father. Don’t diminish your father-in-law.
“Come, my beloved, let us go forth to the field.” She has interest in the field! You cannot be a saved individual and have zero interest in Christ’s field!
Then and together – the bride and the groom, the woman and the man, the two and not more, male and female and not any other combination – they go around checking commerce and industry while in love.
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