Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 4:6

6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away , I will get me to the mountain of myrrhe, and to the hill of frankincense .

These words are uttered by the Bride, Ch. 2. v. 17. and here returned by the Bridegroom as an Answer to that Request. And this place may be understood either 1. Of the day of the Gospel, when all legal shadows shall vanish: Or 2. Of the day of Glory, or of the general Resurrection, when all manner of shadows and Ordinances shall cease. Till which time either the Spouse feeds among Lillies, as was now said, v. 5. or the Bridegroom gets him to the mountains, &c. as it follows. For the words are by most joined with the foregoing, and by some with the following clause.

Either 1. To the Temple at Ierusalem, which is oft and fitly expressed by the name of a mountain or hill, because it was built upon a Mountain, and which may be called a Mountain of Myrrhe and frankincense, because of the abundance of Myrrhe and Frankincense which was there used and offered; in which place the Church was to feed, and Christ would continue his presence until the dawning of the Gospel-day. Or 2. To my Church upon Earth, which was typified by the Mountain of Moriah, and the Temple upon it, and which in Prophetical Writings is called a Mountain, as Isa. 2. 2, 3. Mich. 4. 1, 2. & elsewhere, & which may well be call'd a Mountain of Myrrhe & Frankincense, both for the acceptable services which are there offered to God, and for the precious Gifts, and Graces, and Comforts of the Holy Spirit, which are of a sweet smelling savour to God and Men, and which there, and there only, are poured sorth. Thus Christ directs his Bride, to wit, particular Believers, where they may find and enjoy him, namely in his Church and Ordinances.

Marginal references: Ch. 2. 17.; Heb. breath.