Song of Solomon 4:7

Since it is written: "No one lives without sin, not even an infant whose life is of one day upon the earth" (Job 24:4, according to the Septuagint), what does it mean that the bride is said to be entirely beautiful, in whom no blemish …

That is reserved for you at the end of all things, when I shall take you, all glorious, to myself, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Do you not know that as long as you live in the body you are exiled from …

You are entirely beautiful, my friend, etc. You are beautiful not only in the distinguished members of the elect, which I have specifically enumerated, but also in those who seem small and fragile, and you shine with the beauty of virtues, and you are free …

There is no spot but such as is often the spot of God's children, none of the leopard's spots. The church, when Christ shall present it to himself a glorious church, will be altogether without spot or wrinkle, Eph. v. 27 . The Love of Christ to the Church.

Thou art all fair, my love,.... Being justified by the righteousness of Christ, washed in his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit; of the title, my "love", see Son 1:

Assurance that He is going from her in love, not in displeasure (Joh 16:6, 7). all fair--still stronger than So 1:15; So 4:1. no spot--our privilege (Eph 5:27; Col 2:10); our duty (2Co 6:17;

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Thou art all fair - there is no spot in thee - “My beloved, every part of thee is beautiful; thou hast not a single defect.” The description given of the beauties of Daphne, by Ovid, Metam. lib. 1: ver. 497, has some similarity to the above verses: - Spectat inornatos collo pend ere capillos. Et, quid si comantur? ait. Videt igne micantes Sideribus similes oculos; videt oscula, quae non Est vidisse satis. Laudat digitosque, manusque, Brachiaque, et nudos media plus parte lacertos. Si qua latent meliora putat. Her well-turn’d neck he view’d, (her neck was bare), And on her shoulders her disheveled hair. O, were it comb’d, said he, with what a grace Would every waving curl become her face! He view’d her eyes, like heavenly lamps that shone, He view’d her lips, too sweet to view alone; Her taper fingers, and her panting breast. He praises all he sees; and, for the rest, Believes the beauties yet unseen the best. Dryden. Jayadeva describes the beauty of Radha in nearly the same imagery: “Thy lips, O thou most beautiful among women, are a bandhujiva flower; the lustre of the madhuca beams upon thy cheek; thine eye outshines the blue lotos; thy nose is a bud of the tila; the cunda blossom yields to thy teeth. Surely thou descendedst from heaven, O slender damsel! attended by a company of youthful goddesses; and all their beauties are collected in thee.” See these poems, and the short notes at the end. The same poet has a parallel thought to that in Son 4:5, “Thy two breasts,” etc. The companions of Radha thus address her: “Ask those two round hillocks which receive pure dew drops from the garland playing on thy neck, and the buds on whose tops start aloft with the thought of thy beloved.”