Song of Solomon 2:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Like a roe — In swiftness. He is coming to me with all speed and will not tarry a moment beyond the proper season. He standeth behind — And while he doth for wise reasons forbear to come; he is not far from us. Both this and the following phrases may denote the obscure manner of Christ's manifesting himself to his people, under the law, in comparison of his discoveries in the gospel. The window — This phrase, and that through the lattess, intimate that the church does indeed see Christ, but, as through a glass, darkly, as it is said even of gospel — revelations, 1 Corinthians 13:12, which was much more true of legal administrations.