My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
He standeth - after having bounded over the intervening space like a roe. He often stands near when our unbelief hides Him from us (Genesis 28:16; Revelation 3:19-20). His usual way: long promised and expected, sudden at last; so in visiting the second temple (Malachi 3:1); so at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-47); so in visiting an individual soul, Zaccheus (Luke 19:5-6; John 3:8). So shall it be at His second coming (Matthew 24:48; Matthew 24:50; 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3). Wall - over the cope of which He is first seen.
He looketh forth at (literally, from; Hebrew, min (H4480 )) the windows - glancing suddenly and stealthily [Hebrew, meetsiyts (H6692), to bud or bloom forth, answering to the image (Song of Solomon 2:12). So Messiah, the rod of the stem of Jesse, sprouted forth to the view of the believing Israelite behind the wall of types.] English version.
Showing himself through (Hebrew, min (H4480 ), from) the lattice. The reality here overrules the allegory. Strictly, the Bridegroom was outside the wall in the image, but in the reality He is inside; and from the windows, and from the lattice of types, He glanced forth to the view of the Israelite (cf. the phrase with Genesis 26:8; Proverbs 7:6). The prophecies, types, etc., were lattice glimpses of Him to the Old Testament Church, in spite of the wall of separation which sin had raised (John 8:56): clearer glimpses were given by John the Baptist, but not unclouded (John 1:26). The "wall" primarily is the legal 'fence' (Isaiah 5:2, margin) that went round the Old Testament vineyard, the Israelite Church-namely, its law, moral and ceremonial, behind which believers got a glimpse of Christ (Hebrews 10:1). The legal wall of partition was not to be removed until His death (Hebrews 10:20). Even now He is only seen by faith, through the windows of His Word, and the lattice of ordinances, and sacraments (John 14:21); not full vision (1 Corinthians 13:12): an incentive to our looking for His second coming (Isaiah 33:17).