Song 1:15 | JFB | STEP | 15. fair —He discerns beauty in her, who had said, "I am black" ( ), because of the everlasting covenant ( ). doves' eyes —large and beautiful in the doves of Syria. The prominent features of her beauty ( ), gentleness, innocence, and constant love, emblem of the Holy Ghost, who changes us to His own likeness ( ). The opposite kind of eyes ( ).

Song of Solomon 1:15

15. fair—He discerns beauty in her, who had said, "I am black" (So 1:5), because of the everlasting covenant (Ps 45:11; Isa 62:5; Eph 1:4,5).

doves' eyes—large and beautiful in the doves of Syria. The prominent features of her beauty (Mt 10:16), gentleness, innocence, and constant love, emblem of the Holy Ghost, who changes us to His own likeness (Ge 8:10, 11; Mt 3:16). The opposite kind of eyes (Ps 101:5; Mt 20:15; 2Pe 2:14).