Song of Solomon 4:10
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Song of Solomon 4:10 belongs to one of the one thousand and five songs or poems written by Solomon. It is composed with vivid, warm, Eastern figurative imagery as a dialogue carried on between various parties. That warm, figurative language of the East shapes the whole book as a parable of Christ and His church.
It is a poetical picture and parable in the form of a love poem portraying Christ and His church. Experiences in Solomon's own life may serve as types of Christ and the church. It displays Christ's wonderful love and the church's love in response to Him, though hers is often wanting in faithfulness and constancy.
Its loving imagery belongs to the time in which it was written and is not objectionable when understood in that setting. It is to be read alone with God while keeping in mind that it pictures Christ and His church.