Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 4:3

3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet , and thy speech is comely : thy temples are like a piece of a pomgranate within thy locks .

Fine, and smooth, and soft, and round, and red, in which the beauty of the Lips consisteth.

Which is added partly as another ingredient of an amiable Person; and partly to explain the foregoing Metaphor. The Communication or Discourse of Believers is edifying, and comfortable, and acceptable to God, and to serious men. Compare Psal. 45. 2. Col. 4. 6.

Under which doubtless he comprehends the cheeks, which are joined to them, and in which a great part of beauty lies, which therefore would not have been omitted in this description.

In which there is a lovely mixture of red and white. This may note both the Churches beauty, and her modesty, which sheweth itself by blushes in those parts when she hath falln into any sin, as the highest Believers in this World somtimes do.

A further evidence both of beauty and modesty. See on v. 1.

Marginal references: Ch. 6. 7.