Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
The mountain of myrrh ... the hill of frankincense. Historically, the hill of frankincense is Calvary, where, 'through the eternal Spirit He offered Himself;' the mountain of myrrh is His embalmment with the myrrh and aloes of Nicodemus until the resurrection "day break." The 3rd Canticle occupies the one cloudless day of His presence on earth, beginning from the night (Song of Solomon 2:17), and ending with the night of His departure (Song of Solomon 4:6). His promise is almost exactly in the words of her prayer (Song of Solomon 2:17) - the same Holy Spirit breathing in Jesus Christ and His praying people-with the difference that she then looked for His visible coming. He now tells her that when He shall have gone from sight, He still is to be met with spiritually in prayer until the everlasting daybreak, when we shall see face to face. Typically, as the chariot of the heavenly Solomon (Song of Solomon 3:9) would express His moving tabernacle in the wilderness, so His getting Him to "the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense" expresses His taking His abode in His temple on the holy hill of Zion, where frankincense was offered until the spiritual day-break at the first advent of Messiah.