There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Threescore - indefinite number, as Song of Solomon 3:7. These are witnesses of the espousals; rulers of the earth contrasted with the saints, who, though many, are but "one" bride (Isaiah 52:15; Luke 22:25-26; John 17:21; 1 Corinthians 10:17; notes, Psalms 45:9-15). The one bride is contrasted with the many wives whom Eastern kings had, in violation of the marriage law (1 Kings 11:1-3). The spiritual interpretation is shown herein to be the true sense of Canticles. If the literal sense were meant, the book would never have found a place in the holy Canon. But the one bride m primarily Israel. To her in due time the many queens and concubines-the Gentile peoples-become affiliated so as to form one Church with her, the bride of the Lamb.
But one. Hollow professors, like half-wives, have no part in the one bride.
Only one of her mother - namely, "Jerusalem above" (Galatians 4:26). The "little sister" (Song of Solomon 8:8) is not inconsistent with her being "the only one;" for that sister is one with herself (John 10:16).
Choice - (Ephesians 1:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:13) As she exalted Him above all others (Song of Solomon 5:10), so he now her.
Daughters ... blessed her - (Isaiah 61:9.) So at the Church's, appearance after Pentecost.