His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
The Church now having given as before a general idea of her Lord, here begins to descend into particulars. And as Jesus in the preceding Chapter had been commending the beauty of his Church, she now holds forth in the best manner she is able, the surpassing grace and loveliness of her Lord. And first, she describes his head: perhaps alluding to God the Father: for the Apostle saith, that the head of Christ is God. 1 Corinthians 11:3. And as Christ in his divine nature is one with the Father over all, God blessed forever; perhaps also the expression might allude to the divine nature of Christ, and his headship over his Church and people. And in this sense the locks of Christ may refer, in relation to the numberless hairs of the head, to the multitude of believers.