Song 8:4 | JFB | STEP | 3, 4. The "left and right hand," &c., occurred only once actually ( ), and here optatively. Only at His first manifestation did the Church palpably embrace Him; at His second coming there shall be again sensible communion with Him. The rest in , which is a spiritual realization of the wish in ( ), and the charge not to disturb it, close the first, second, and fourth canticles; not the third, as the bridegroom there takes charge Himself; nor the fifth, as, if repose formed its close, we might mistake the present state for our rest. The broken, longing close, like that of the whole Bible ( ), reminds us we are to be waiting for a Saviour to come. On "daughters of Jerusalem," see on . CANTICLE V.— ( ) —FROM THE CALL OF THE GENTILES TO THE CLOSE OF REVELATION.

Song of Solomon 8:4

3, 4. The "left and right hand," &c., occurred only once actually (So 2:6), and here optatively. Only at His first manifestation did the Church palpably embrace Him; at His second coming there shall be again sensible communion with Him. The rest in So 8:4, which is a spiritual realization of the wish in So 8:3 (1Pe 1:8), and the charge not to disturb it, close the first, second, and fourth canticles; not the third, as the bridegroom there takes charge Himself; nor the fifth, as, if repose formed its close, we might mistake the present state for our rest. The broken, longing close, like that of the whole Bible (Re 22:20), reminds us we are to be waiting for a Saviour to come. On "daughters of Jerusalem," see on So 7:10.

CANTICLE V.— (So 8:5-14) —FROM THE CALL OF THE GENTILES TO THE CLOSE OF REVELATION.