Song of Solomon 3:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Who is this, &c. The persons speaking seem to be the daughters of Jerusalem, who, upon occasion of the bride's speech to them, make this reply. The person spoken of is the spouse: that cometh out of the wilderness Believers were to be called, not only out of the holy land, which was as the garden of God, but also out of the Gentile world, which, in prophetical writings, is frequently described under the notion of a wilderness: like pillars of smoke Being conducted out of the wilderness as by a pillar of smoke going before them, as the Israelites were led through the wilderness to Canaan, by a pillar of cloud and fire: perfumed with myrrh The spouse is said to be thus perfumed, for her excellent virtues and religious services, which are pleasant and acceptable to God, and for the merits and graces of Christ, which are a sweet savour to God, wherewith she is enriched and beautified: with all the powders of the merchants Which are fetched by the merchants from Arabia, or other remote parts.