Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 5:7

7 The watch-men that went about the city , found me, they smote me, they wounded me ; the keepers of the walls took away my vail from me.

The Governours of the Church, as Ch. 3. 3. who, though by their place and office they be obliged to comfort and protect the faithful, do frequently discourage and oppress them, as they manifestly did both in the days of Isaiah, and Ieremiah, and the other holy Prophets, and in the time of Christ and his Apostles, and in divers other Ages.

With bitter Calumnies and Persecutions.

The same with the Watch-men, whose Office it is to keep the Gates and Walls of the City.

Which was an ornament of her Sex, Isa. 3. 23. and a badge of her Modesty, Gen. 24. 65. or an ensign of her Relation and Subjection to Christ, Gen. 20. 16. 1 Cor. 11. 5. And so the taking of this Veil away, signifies their contemptuous and injurious usage of her, their endeavours to blast her Reputation, and to represent and treat her as a common and impudent prostitute, and as one that had no Relation to Christ.