Song of Solomon 2:6

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

His left hand. The "stay" she prayed for () is granted (; ; ; ). None can pluck from that embrace (John 10:28). His hand keeps us from falling (Matthew 14:30): to it we may commit ourselves ().

His right hand. The "left" is the inferior hand, by which the Lord less signally manifests His love than by the right: the secret hand of ordinary providence, as distinguished from that of manifested grace, the "right." They really go together, though sometimes they seem divided: here both are felt at once. Theodoret takes the left hand as referring to judgment and wrath; the right to honour and love. The hand of justice no longer is lifted to smite, but is under the head of the believer to support (). The hand of Jesus Christ, pierced by justice for our sin, supports us. The charge () not to disturb the beloved occurs thrice; but the sentiment here, "His left hand," etc., nowhere else fully; which accords with the intensity of joy () experienced in the first love of Israel, the New Testament Church, and the individual believer (). In it is only conditional, "should embrace," not "doth."