I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, that you stir not up, nor awake love, till it pleases.
All Commentaries on Song of Songs 2:7 Go To Song of Songs 2
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
I. Christ permits not his Church to be persecuted, till she be able to bear it. (Worthington)
Roes. Septuagint, "armies and power "the angels and apostles, who have spread the gospel through the world. It would seem that the Jewish women loved hunting, (Calmet) like those of Phoenicia and Lacedæmon. (Virgil, Æneid i.) They were going to sing, (Calmet) the morning epithalamium, (Theocrit. xviii.) after the first night of the marriage. The second meeting takes place, ver. 8, 17. (Haydock)
