Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 6:5

5 Turn away thine eyes from me , for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead .

For I can scarce bear the Lustre of them. It is a poetical and amatorious Expression, signifying how beautiful the Church was in Christs Eyes, and how passionately he loved her.

This clause, and the whole following verse are repeated from Ch. 4. 1, 2. And this repetition is not vain nor absurd, but very agreeable to the nature of a Pastoral and Song of Love, as being an effect and testimony of vehement Affection, and besides it confirms what was said before, and sheweth that the Churches miscarriage and Christs desertion of her upon it, had not made him change his Opinion of her, or Affection to her.

Marginal references: Or, they have p[illegible: 1+ letters]ssed me up.