Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 2:8

8 The voice of my beloved ! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills .

Methinks I hear his voice. The Spouse being now refreshed and revived with Christs presence, awakes out of sleep, and breaks forth into this joyful Exclamation. Christs voice is nothing else but the word of Grace revealed outwardly in the Gospel, or the Evangelical passages of the old Testament, and inwardly to the heart of the Spouse by the Spirit of God.

Either 1. He is coming, or will shortly come into the World; which Solomon and the rest of the Old-Testament Prophets, and Saints, did earnestly desire and confidently expect. Or 2. He is coming to me for my support and comfort.

He saith, leaping and skipping, to note that Christ came readily, and swiftly, with great desire and pleasure; and he adds, upon the Mountains and Hills, either with respect to Mount Zion or Ierusalem, in and from which Christ first discovered himself: or to signifie Christs fixed resolution to come, in spight of all discouragements and difficulties which stood in his way: or to shew that his coming was manifest and visible to the Eye of her Faith. Or in this Phrase he may have a respect to the Roes and Harts here following.