Song 5:14 | JFB | STEP | 14. rings set with ... beryl-- Hebrew, Tarshish, so called from the city. The ancient chrysolite, gold in color (Septuagint), our topaz, one of the stones on the high priest's breastplate, also in the foundation of New Jerusalem ( , ; also ). "Are as," is plainly to be supplied, see in a similiar ellipsis; not as Moody Stuart: "have gold rings." The hands bent in are compared to beautiful rings, in which beryl is set, as the nails are in the fingers. Burrowes explains the rings as cylinders used as signets, such as are found in Nineveh, and which resemble fingers. A ring is the token of sonship ( ). A slave was not allowed to wear a gold ring. He imparts His sonship and freedom to us ( ); also of authority ( ; compare ). He seals us in the name of God with His signet ( ), compare below, , where she desires to be herself a signet-ring on His arms; so "graven on the palms," &c., that is, on the signet-ring in His hand ( ; contrast , with ). belly-- Burrowes and Moody Stuart translate, "body." Newton, as it is elsewhere, "bowels"; namely, His compassion ( ; ; ; ). bright-- literally, "elaborately wrought so as to shine," so His "prepared" body ( ); the "ivory palace" of the king ( ); spotless, pure, so the bride's "neck is as to tower of ivory" ( ). sapphires-- spangling in the girdle around Him ( ). "To the pure all things are pure." As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form. As, however, the bride and bridegroom are in public, the usual robes on the person, richly ornamented, are presupposed ( ). Sapphires indicate His heavenly nature (so , "is in heaven"), even in His humiliation, overlaying or cast "over" His ivory human body ( ). Sky-blue in color, the height and depth of the love of Jesus Christ ( ).

‏ Song of Solomon 5:14

14. rings set with ... beryl--Hebrew, Tarshish, so called from the city. The ancient chrysolite, gold in color (Septuagint), our topaz, one of the stones on the high priest's breastplate, also in the foundation of New Jerusalem (Re 21:19, 20; also Da 10:6). "Are as," is plainly to be supplied, see in So 5:13 a similiar ellipsis; not as Moody Stuart: "have gold rings." The hands bent in are compared to beautiful rings, in which beryl is set, as the nails are in the fingers. Burrowes explains the rings as cylinders used as signets, such as are found in Nineveh, and which resemble fingers. A ring is the token of sonship (Lu 15:22). A slave was not allowed to wear a gold ring. He imparts His sonship and freedom to us (Ga 4:7); also of authority (Ge 41:42; compare Joh 6:27). He seals us in the name of God with His signet (Re 7:2-4), compare below, So 8:6, where she desires to be herself a signet-ring on His arms; so "graven on the palms," &c., that is, on the signet-ring in His hand (Is 49:16; contrast Hag 2:23, with Jr 22:24).

belly--Burrowes and Moody Stuart translate, "body." Newton, as it is elsewhere, "bowels"; namely, His compassion (Psa 22:14; Is 63:15; Jr 31:20; Ho 11:8).

bright--literally, "elaborately wrought so as to shine," so His "prepared" body (He 10:5); the "ivory palace" of the king (Psa 45:8); spotless, pure, so the bride's "neck is as to tower of ivory" (So 7:4).

sapphires--spangling in the girdle around Him (Da 10:5). "To the pure all things are pure." As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form. As, however, the bride and bridegroom are in public, the usual robes on the person, richly ornamented, are presupposed (Is 11:5). Sapphires indicate His heavenly nature (so Joh 3:13, "is in heaven"), even in His humiliation, overlaying or cast "over" His ivory human body (Ex 24:10). Sky-blue in color, the height and depth of the love of Jesus Christ (Ep 3:18).