Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Song of Solomon 1:11
We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
11. We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver ] Rather, strings of golden beads will we make thee, with points of silver. These more splendid adornments will be substituted for her modest country ornaments.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 11. Borders of gold] I have observed several of the handkerchiefs, shawls, and head attire of the Eastern women, curiously and expensively worked in the borders with gold and silver, and variously coloured silk, which has a splendid effect.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
We; I thy Bridegroom, with the cooperation of my Father, and of the Holy Spirit. Such plural expressions are sometimes used in Scripture concerning one God, to note the plurality of persons in one Divine essence, as hath been noted upon Gen 1:26, and elsewhere.
Borders of gold with studs of silver; beautiful and honourable ornaments, such as those Son 1:10. Variety of expressions are used to signify the various kinds and improvements of the gifts and graces which are bestowed by Christ upon the church. The phrase here used may be compared with that of
apples of gold in pictures of silver, Pro 25:11.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
11. Wethe Trinity implied bythe Holy Ghost, whether it was so by the writer of the Song or not(Gen 1:26; Pro 8:30;Pro 30:4). “The Jewsacknowledged God as king, and Messiah as king, in interpreting theSong, but did not know that these two are one” [LEIGHTON].
makenot merely give(Eph 2:10).
borders of gold, with studsof silverthat is, “spots of silver”Jesus Christdelights to give more “to him that hath” (Mt25:29). He crowns His own work in us (Isa26:12). The “borders” here are equivalent to “rows”(So 1:10); but here, the Kingseems to give the finish to her attire, by adding a crown(borders, or circles) of gold studded with silver spots, as inEs 2:17. Both the royaland nuptial crown, or chaplet. The Hebrew for “spouse”(So 4:8) is a crowned one(Eze 16:12; Rev 2:10).The crown is given at once upon conversion, in title, but in sensiblepossession afterwards (2Ti 4:8).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. Christ here in his own name, and in the name of the other two divine Persons, promises to the church a greater glory than as yet she had enjoyed; and seems to have respect to the Gospel dispensation; for by “golden borders” studded with “silver” may be meant the ordinances of the Gospel, preferable to those under the law; and therefore said to be of “gold [and] silver”, for their glory, splendour, and durableness: or else the doctrines of the Gospel, being of more worth than thousands of gold and silver; and being called “borders”, or rather “rows” e, may denote their orderly disposition and connection, their harmony and agreement with and dependence on each other: and the Gospel is full of silver “specks” or “studs” of exceeding great and precious promises; a variety of them useful and pleasant; a greater measure of the grace of the Spirit may be here promised: or the “borders” may intend the groundwork of the church’s faith and hope, the justifying righteousness of Christ, more clearly revealed; and the “studs of silver” the curious work of sanctification, more enlarged and increased; and so take in both Christ’s righteousness imputed to her, and his grace implanted in her; but perhaps these phrases may be best of all understood of the New Jerusalem state, and of the ultimate glory of the saints in heaven, sometimes set forth by such similes, Isa 54:11. Both grace and glory are given by Christ, and in which all the three divine Persons are concerned; for not angels, nor the daughters of Jerusalem, are here the speakers, to whom such things promised cannot agree; nor God, speaking after the manner of men, and for honour’s sake, is designed: but the trinity of Persons, Father, Son, and Spirit, are meant; the ordinances are of their institution, and administered in their name, Mt 28:19; they have all a concern it, the Gospel and the doctrines of it, which is called the Gospel of God, and the Gospel, of Christ, and the ministering of the Spirit; the grace of God, in regeneration and conversion, is sometimes ascribed to one and sometimes to another; and an increase of it in the heart is wished for from all three, Re 1:4; and they have a hand in all the glory the saints shall enjoy hereafter: the Father has prepared the kingdom from the foundation of the world; the Son has made way for it by his obedience, sufferings, and death; and the Spirit is the earnest of it, makes meet for it, and introduces into it.
e “ordines”, Marckius, Michaelis.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(11) Borders.The same word translated rows in preceding verse. In the dramatic theory, this verse put into Solomons mouth takes the form of a seductive offer of richer and more splendid ornaments to dazzle the rustic maiden; but no theory is necessary to explain a fond lovers wish to adorn the person of his beloved.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
11. Borders Better, a circlet. A young woman has naturally a passionate love for the beautiful in dress, and this royal offer must have been very tempting.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
I desire the Reader to remark with me the alteration that is here made in the language of the Speaker. All that went before is delivered by one person, and is in the singular number. But here, it is as if by more than one, and is in the plural. And what can this mean, but that Jesus, as the Speaker, promiseth in his own name, and jointly in the name of the Father, and the Holy Ghost with himself, to give his Church the blessings here spoken of. Let the Reader recollect a similar form made use of at the creation: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Gen 1:26 . And so again at that glorious vision the Prophet saw; Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Isa 6:1-8 . Let the Reader further recollect the commission Christ gave to his Apostles in the moment of his departure, when committing his blessed gospel into their hands, that they should go forth and baptize in the joint name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Mat 28:19 . And let the Reader call to mind at the same time the Holy Ghost’s words by Paul the Apostle, when blessing the Church; in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Ghost. 2Co 13:14 . Let the Reader bring all these scriptures into one point of view together; and then let him determine for himself, whether we are not to consider what is said in this verse; We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver, as the covenant engagements of all the Persons of the Godhead to the Church in Jesus, that she shall be blessed with all spiritual blessings of God in Christ Jesus the Lord. Eph 1:3 . I need not enlarge on that part of the verse, in inquiring what those blessings are. No doubt the borders of gold and studs of silver mean to include all blessings, temporal, spiritual, eternal. Everything, and every state, shall be sanctified and blessed: for God having chosen the Church in Christ, and Jesus having married the Church to himself, and washed her from all the filthiness, and from all her idols; the Holy Ghost hath made her, and, will make her a glorious church not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that she might be holy and without blemish. Eph 5:27 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Son 1:11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.
Ver. 11. We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. ] We, the whole Trinity, will join together, as we do in all our works ad extra, in framing for thee these glorious ornaments, in putting upon thee our own comeliness, Eze 16:11-14 in increasing and embellishing thy graces, thy pure gold of holiness, with silver specks, studs, or embroidery. Thus the spouse promiseth, to make his bride, though he find her fair and fine, much fairer and finer by an addition of more and more graces and gifts, both ordinary and extraordinary, till she be “transformed into the same image from glory to glory.” He will spare for neither gold nor silver to beautify her, such is his abundant love unto her. He clothes her with the particoloured a garment of a great variety b of graces, and this he borders with gold, and bespangles with silver. Her clothing is of “wrought gold,” far more stately and costly than that of Esther in all her beauty and bravery; than that of Dionysius, whose mantle was sold to the Carthaginians for a hundred and twenty talents; c than that royal robe of Demetrius, King of Macedonia, that was so massive and magnificent that none of his successors would ever wear it, Propter invidiosam impendii magniflcentiam, for the unparalleled sumptuousness thereof.
a Shortened from parti-coloured, esp. in reference to a dog’s coat, marked in patches of two distinct colours. Cf. rose-colour, etc. Also as n., esp. a dog whose coat is coloured in this way.
b . Eph 3:10
c Athenaeus.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Son 1:11
11We will make for you ornaments of gold
With beads of silver.
Son 1:11 Again the problem is the identity of the speaker. Note the use of the PLURAL we. The NKJV identifies the speaker as the Daughters of Jerusalem. The NASB makes Son 1:11 a separate paragraph, denoting a possible change of speaker. However, its outline makes Son 1:8-17 come from Solomon. TEV and NJB see it as a continuation of the male speaker.
Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley
borders = bead-rows.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Son 8:9, Gen 1:26, Psa 149:4, Eph 5:25-27, Phi 3:21
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Her friends volunteered to make more ornaments for her so she would be even more attractive to Solomon.