This Request may be considered as the language of the whole Church, longing for the second coming of Jesus Christ. It is clearly revealed that the Lord will appear again the second time, without spot and sin, to salvation; the brightest display of history, and the complete Deliverer of his people. It is necessary he should appear again—the consummation of the Marriage Union is an event our dear Lord must accomplish, when he will leave the third heavens, and descend into the air with his heavenly retinue, to meet his Bride complete, body and soul, upon her resurrection from the dead. O what a joyful meeting of the heavenly Bridegroom and the spiritual Bride, of the glorious company of saints and angels, of the body and souls of God’s children, to sin no more, to sorrow no more, but to be like Jesus, see his face, enjoy his smiles, and so be for ever with the Lord. The thought is animating—Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! _Make haste_, _my beloved_—the event will be awful, but glorious, the procession such as never has taken place in the upper or lower worlds. Perhaps some things are said about it, in allusion to earthly processions when a judge enters a town. O when the stars fall, when the sun hides his head, when the moon is confounded, when the world is in a blaze, then, then! O gracious Saviour, own us in that day for thine; and he surely will, O believers, as you have been enabled to own him in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; as sure as you are born again of the spirit, love him in soul, cleave to him in faith and hope, depend on him for life and salvation, and love all his gracious appearances. The crown is laid up for them who love his appearance.—This leads us to notice the metaphor here made use of, _a Roe or a young Hart upon the mountains of spices_. This is a phrase frequently used in this Song; and sometimes Christ is compared to these lovely creatures, no doubt, for their loving natures, excellent and choice, for the antipathy between them and serpents—for their thirst, after the conflict they usually have with Serpents: they are also remarkable for longivity, but in this text are mentioned to shew their remarkable swiftness of foot: their speediness is used to set forth the swiftness of Christ to the soul, over mountains of sorrow, hills of grief, over all the difficulties that are in the way. The request, then, is simply thus, Make haste my beloved, and fly swift to me, as a Roe or Hart upon mountains, where they delight to run and skip: so his gracious presence is desired on the mountains of Zion, the congregations of the saints, and the hearth and families of believers. The celebrated Dr. _Gill_ thinks these mountains refer to the glory beyond the grave: the height and sublimity of this happy state; it is above, reserved in heaven—a hope, a crown laid up, the prize of the high calling—it is a permanency, an everlasting joy—pleasures for evermore!