Song of Solomon 2:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My beloved is like a roe In swiftness. He is coming to me with all speed, and will not tarry a moment beyond the proper season. He standeth behind our wall And while he doth, for wise reasons, forbear to come, he is not far from us. Both this and the following phrases may denote the obscure manner of Christ's manifesting himself to his people, under the law, in comparison of his discoveries in the gospel. He looketh forth at the window This phrase, and that, through the lattice, intimate that the church does indeed see Christ, but as through a glass, darkly, as it is said even of gospel revelations, (1 Corinthians 13:12,) which was much more true of legal administrations.