I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
I charge you ... nor awake (my) love until he please. This charge is that of restored Israel to the converted Gentile nations, not to interrupt the millennial rest of Christ with His world-wide Church, the center of which shall then be Jerusalem. The apostasy which shall precede, as also that which shall close, the millennium, shows this charge not to be needless (Revelation 20:4-9). The rest in Song of Solomon 8:4, which is a spiritual realization of the wish in Song of Solomon 8:3 (1 Peter 1:8), and the charge not to disturb it, close the 1James 2:1-26 James 2:1-26 nd, and 4th canticles; not the 3rd, as the Bridegroom there takes charge Himself; nor the 5th; for if repose formed its close, we might mistake the present state for our rest. The broken, longing close (Song of Solomon 8:14), like that of the whole Bible (Rev. 22:29), reminds us we are to be waiting for a Saviour to come. On "daughters of Jerusalem," see note, Song of Solomon 7:10.