Song of Solomon 7:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thine head, which may signify the church's mind or understanding, which is seated in the head, upon thee, which is upon thee, or above the rest of thy body, is like Carmel, eminent and pleasant to the eye, and fruitful as Mount Carmel was, as hath been formerly noted; which may note that her mind was adorned and replenished with knowledge and other excellent gifts of the Holy Ghost. Or, as others render it, like crimson or purple, which is called Carmel, 2 Chronicles 2:7, 2 Chronicles 3:14, because those fishes out of which they had their purple were taken in the sea bordering upon Mount Carmel. And so the same thing is repeated in the next clause in other words. Like purple; which colour was anciently much esteemed and commended, as by sacred, so also by profane writers. The king is held in the galleries; in which he walketh, and having once espied thee, is captivated by thee, and unable or unwilling either to depart or to take off his eyes from thee, as if he were fast bound and chained to thee. The galleries may note either the ordinances, or rather the churches, in which Christ walketh, Revelation 2:1, in which Christ and believers converse together.