What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
What (is) thy beloved more than (another) beloved? Her own beauty, through the Lord's comeliness put upon her, so that her 'renown went forth among the pagan,' and her love-sickness for Him, elicit now their inquiry (Matthew 5:16): heretofore "other lords beside Him had dominion over them;" thus they had seen "no beauty in Him."