Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon
Make haste, my beloved. (See note, Song of Solomon 2:17). As she began with longing for His first coming (Song of Solomon 1:2), so she ends with praying for His second coming (Psalms 130:6; Revelation 22:20). Moody Stuart makes the roe upon spices to be the muskdeer. As there are four gardens, so four mountains, which form not mere images, as Gilead, Carmel, etc., but part of the structure of the Song.
(1) Bether (H1335), or division (Song of Solomon 2:17), God's justice dividing us from God;
(2) Those "of the leopards" (Song of Solomon 4:8), sin, the world, and Satan;
(3) That "of myrrh and aloes" (Song of Solomon 4:6; Song of Solomon 4:14), the sepulchre of Calvary;
(4) Those "of spices," here parallel to "the hill of frankincense (Song of Solomon 4:6), where His soul had been for the three days of His death; and answering to heaven, where He is a High Priest now offering incense for us on the fragrant mountain of His own finished work (Heb. 4:19; Hebrews 7:25; Revelation 8:3-4).
Thus, He surmounts the other three mountains-God's justice, our sin, and death. The mountain of spices is as much greater than our sins as heaven is higher than earth (Psalms 103:11). The abrupt unsatisfied close, with the yearning prayer for His visible coming, shows that the marriage is future, and that to wait eagerly for it is our true attitude (Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 3:12). This verse is parallel to the disciples' longing for the kingdom just before the Ascension-`Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6.)