Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there is] no spot in thee.
Ver. 7. Thou art all fair, my love.] Christ, having graciously answered his spouse's petition with a promise of his gracious presence with her and providence over her, proceeds in her commendation. A perfection of parts he here grants her, though not of degrees, a comparative perfection also in regard of the wicked, whose "spot is not the spot of his children." Deu 31:5 He calls her his spouse in the next verse. The Hebrew word a imports that, being dressed in all her bride attire, she is all fair, and hath perfection of beauty, Jer 2:32 and is all glorious within and without, not having spot, wrinkle, or any such thing, but holy and spotless. Eph 5:26-27 Fair he called her before, Son 4:1 but new,
All fair.] And therefore "the fairest among women," a suitable mate for him who is "fairer than all the children of men." Psa 45:2 Not but that she hath, while here, her infirmities and deformities, as the moon hath her blots and blemishes but these are ut naevi in vultu Veneris; these serve as foils to set off her superexcellent beauty, or rather the superabundant grace of Christ, who "seeth no sin in Jacob"; that is, imputeth none but freely accepteth his own work in his people, and sweetly passeth by whatsoever is amiss in them. Perfection is what they breathe after, and that which is already begun in them; they have the firstfruits of the Spirit, and all their strife is to "attain to the resurrection of the dead"; that is, to that perfection of holiness that accompanieth the state of the resurrection. Php 3:11
There is no spot in thee,] i.e., None in mine account none such as the wicked are full of See Trapp on " Deu 32:5 " - no leopard spots that cannot be washed away with any water. Faults will escape the best man between his fingers: Nimis angusta res est nusquam errare, In many things we offend all. Jam 3:2 But as David saw nothing in lame Mephibosheth but what was lovely, because he saw in him the features of his friend Jonathan; so God, beholding his offending people in the face of his Son, takes no notice of anything amiss in them. They are, as that tree of paradise, Gen 3:6 fair to his eye, and pleasant to his palate; or as Absalom, in whom there was no blemish from head to foot, so are they irreprehensible and without blemish before the throne of God. Rev 14:5
a Calab of Calol, to profit.