Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 7:2

2 Thy navel is like a round goblet which wanteth not liquor : thy belly is like an heap of wheat , set about with lilies .

To which it is not unfitly compared because it is of a round form, and hollow, and hath windings and circlings in it.

Thy Navel is not only comely but fruitful. For the Navel is the proper instrument of nourishing the Child or Children which are in the Womb. And so this seems to signifie the Churches fruitfulness partly in her self, in cherishing and improving all the Graces and good motions of Gods Spirit within her; and principally in reference to those many Children which she bears and feeds in her Womb with the wholsom liquor of Gods Ordinances.

In which thy Children are for a time contained and fed.

i. e. Of wheat corn, round and swelling, as it is in Women with child, and full of nourishment, not only of Liquor▪ as was last said, but also of Meat, which may note the various provisions which Christ hath laid up in his Church according to the several capacities of her Children, Milk for Babes, and stronger Meat for those who are grown up.

Not for defence, which the Church doth not need, having the strong God for her Protector, but for Ornament and Beauty. Whereby is implied, that she is not only fruitful but beautiful, and that her Children are not only numerous and well fed, but also comely and delightful to the Eye, as Lilies are, and withal pure and innocent, in which respect both Christ and the Church are compared to Lilies, Cant. 1. 1, 2.

Marginal references: Heb. mixture.