I. Notice, first, the Church's or the believer's name "daughter" and "prince's daughter." (1) She is called "daughter." This points to the tender relation subsisting between Christ and His people. When Jehovah in the Old Testament speaks most endearingly of His ancient Church, He calls it "the daughterof Zion." (2) Again, she is a "prince's daughter." He reminds her of her pedigree. It is no ordinary birth. She is one of the adopted children of the "King of kings" those who by virtue of their spiritual relationship to the Prince of the kings of the earth, their Elder Brother, are themselves "made kings and priests unto God."
II. Consider the subject of commendation: "How beautiful are thy feet with shoes!" (1) The shoe or sandal, in ancient times, and in Oriental countries, was the badge of freedom and honour. (2) Shoes or sandals were emblems of joy; while the want of these was equally recognised and regarded as a symbol of grief and sorrow. (3) The sandals on the feet speak of activity, and duty, and preparedness for Christ's service. They point to the nature of the journey the believer is pursuing. Though a pleasant road, and a safe road, and a road with a glorious termination, it is at times rough: a path of temptation and trial. Unshod feet would be cut and lacerated with the stones and thorns and briars which beset it. (4) The shoes point to the believer as a messenger to others. The Church in each of her members must be, or ought to be, shod as a ministering one.
J. R. Macduff, Communion Memories,p. 109.
References: Song of Solomon 7:8. J. M. Neale, Sermons on the Song of Songs,pp. 286, 291, 301; Ibid., Sermons in Sackville College,vol. i., p. 224.Song of Solomon 7:9. Expositor,3rd series, vol. i., p. 160.