Song of Solomon 3:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

I held him... — Bossuet, following Bede, regards this as prophetic of Mary Magdalen (type of the Church) on the morning of the Resurrection.

Song of Solomon 3:4

4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.