Return Christ recalls his spouse, who, as when Christ was gone, she pursued after him, so now, when Christ was coming to her, she was ready to wander from him. Return This word is repeated four times, to signify both Christ's passionate love to her, and her backwardness. O Shulamite This title signifies the wife of Solomon, thus called after her husband's name; see Isaiah 4:1; and as Christ is called by the name of Solomon, (Song of Solomon 3:7,) so the church is fitly described by the title of Solomon's wife. That we may look upon thee That I and my companions may contemplate thy beauty. What will you see But what do you, my friends, expect to discover in her? Christ proposes the question, that they might take special notice of this as a very remarkable thing in her. The company Whereby he intimates, that this one spouse was made up of the whole multitude of believers; of two armies Confederate together, and so this may signify the union of Jews and Gentiles, and the safety and strength of the church, which is compared to a numerous host, distributed into two armies.
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Song of Solomon 6:13
13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.