Song of Solomon 7:1

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Ver. 1. How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, &c.] Before he had described her from head to foot; now back again, from foot to head, taking in ten parts of his spouse, concerning whom - such was his love - he thought he could never say sufficient. He begins at the lowest and most abject part, the feet, not without admiration of them. O quam pulchri sunt pedes tui! "Oh, how beautiful are thy feet with shoes!" A temporal calling honours our profession; so some understand it. Others make the meaning to be, the Church's being "shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace"; Eph 6:15 ready pressed to "run with patience the race that is set before her." Heb 12:1 To run is active; to run with patience is passive. This prince's daughter (Atalanta-like) can only skill of this "running with patience," as being shod with Tachash skin, Eze 16:10 bestowed upon her by her spouse, as a love token, that is, with sound affections and holy actions. Whereas wicked men are carried captive by the devil, as the Egyptians once were by the Assyrians, Isa 20:4 "naked and barefoot," and so "perish from the way." Psa 2:12

O prince's daughter.] Thou that hast him for thy father "in whose hands are all the corners of the earth," and is supreme King of the universe. This is such a privilege and preferment as St John stands amazed at. 1Jn 3:1 "Behold," saith he, qualem et quantum, "what manner of love the Father hath showed unto us, that we should be called the sons" and daughters "of God Almighty." 2Co 6:18 All privileges are summed up in this; and in Joh 1:12 it is called a power or prerogative a royal; it is to be of royal blood of heaven; it is to be an heir of God and co-heir with Christ. Kings can make their firstborn only heirs, as Jehoshaphat. 2Ch 21:3 But all God's children are firstborn, and so "higher than the kings of the earth." Psa 89:27

The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, &c., ] i.e., Thy loins are compassed with the belt of truth; for so some render it, The compassing of thy thighs or loins. And here, if ever, ungirt, unblest. "Gird up therefore the loins of your minds"; 1Pe 1:13 gird yourselves and serve God. Luk 17:8 Girding implies readiness, nimbleness, handiness, handsomeness. A loose, discinct, and diffluent mind is unfit for holy actions.

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