Come, &c.— Here begins the fourth day's eclogue, in which the bridegroom professes himself the bride's protector, &c. Song of Solomon 4:8, &c. In the first place, he gives the bride to understand that she is now under the cover of his protection, and is to apply to him only for relief under all dangers and difficulties. This, according to the Eastern manner, he does in the way of parable or figure; supposing her placed on the tops of mountains infested by wild beasts, whence he invites her to himself, as to a place of safety, and gives her to understand, that, now he is her guardian, she may look down in security amidst any dangers of which she was apprehensive, Song of Solomon 4:8. He then publicly declares, that she is a garden secured from intruders—an inaccessible spring, whose waters are unpolluted—an unsullied fountain under the sanction of an unbroken seal. And, having here compared her to a garden, he pursues the figure, and supposes all the finest and most precious vegetable productions to enrich and embellish it, Song of Solomon 4:13-15. She, catching up the metaphor, wishes that this garden, for which he has expressed so much fondness, might be so breathed on by the kindly gales, as to produce whatever might contribute to his delight, Song of Solomon 4:16. The bridegroom returns the encomium, chap. Song of Solomon 5:1 and professes that his wish is completely accomplished; and, still keeping up the metaphor, he invites his friends to rejoice with him. See New Translation.
Come with me from Lebanon, &c.— Come to me from Lebanon, &c. look down securely from the top. The summits of the mountains here mentioned were inhabited by wild beasts. Judaea was especially infested by lions. Lebanon, Amana, Shenir, and Hermon, were all of them places where some dangers were to be apprehended; and it is a usual beauty in poetry, to represent a general idea by particulars which largely partake of it, as here dangers by dangerous places. See New Translation, Michaelis, and Bishop Pococke's description of the East, p. 122. 136.