Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 5:3
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Song of Solomon5:3
3 I have put off my coat , how shall I put it on ? I have washed my feet , how shall I defile them?
My day-cloaths, as persons use to do when they go to rest.
It is inconvenient and troublesom to do it at this time. Thus she tacitly reflects upon the Bridegroom for coming to her so unseasonably, and giving her such disturbance, and puts him off to another time, and excuseth her non-admission of him by her present indisposition, and the difficulty of the thing required of her.
Which the Eastern people commonly did when they went to Bed, partly to cool their Feet, and partly to cleanse them from that dust and sweat which they had contracted in the day time by Labour and Travel, as being used to go barefoot.
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