Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 7:1

1 HOw beautiful are thy feet with shoes , O princes daughter ! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman .

Which being the chief instrument of our motion from place to place, is oft used me[illegible: 1+ letters]onimically for the motion itself, and so may here signifie either the inward motions, the workings of the affections, or the outward motions, the steps or actions of the Life, both which are right and amiable in Believers.

Which were anciently evidences of a free and comfortable state, whereas slaves and mourners use to go baresoot, 2 Sam. 15. 30. Isa. 20. 4. which also in Women of high quality were adorned with Gold and other Ornaments; of which see Isa. 3. 18. These may also signifie that the Feet of Believers should be shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. Eph. 6. 15.

Both by Birth, being born of God, and by disposition and deportment agreeable to that quality.

Either 1. The hollow place in which the Hip or Thigh-bone moveth and turneth itself: Or rather 2. The Hip or Thigh-bone which moveth there: for this is more fitly compared to a jewel well set. Some understand this of some Ornaments worn by Women upon those parts; for the word rendred joints may signifie girdles, or any Ornament which encompasseth any part of the Body, and the same words which signifie thighs are both in Hebrew, and other Languages, somtimes used concerning the legs. Which being admitted, this might seem to be understood of the Brides Garters about her Legs, which not unfitly follows the Shoes upon her Feet last mentioned. But this sense seems not to suit so well with the following comparison as the former doth.

Like jewels orderly and excellently set by a skilful Artist. So this signifies the uprightness and decency of her going, which depends very much upon the right scituation of the Hip or Thigh-bone, which when it is dislocated or disordered causeth a lameness or uncomeliness in going; whereby he understands the orderliness and amiableness of her conversation.