Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon

5. In the rest of the 6. vers. she doth more fully explicate her answer, in so far as concerned her blackness (for so the words run in this 6. vers.) two ways, 1. In setting out her sufferings in general. 2. In a more particular distribution of the kind and occasions of her seeming unloveliness. Generally, her sad condition is expressed in these words, The Sun hath looked upon me. The Sun in these Countries had great heat, as we may see in Jonah ⟨p. 80⟩4. 8. where the beating of the Sun upon him did sore vex him; Jacob also says, it burnt him in the day-time, Gen. 31. 40. Therefore, Matth, 13. 6. and 21. the Lord expresseth persecution, under the similitude of the scorching heat of the Sun. Here the meaning is (as if she had said) it's no marvel I be black, I have been made obnoxious to all sorts of persecution, and therefore can have no outward beauty, but must be in the eyes of the world contemptible, even as one cannot endure the hot Sun-beams and not be blackened. So there are in this expression, these things imported, 1. Persecution. 2. Vehement persecution. 3. Visible effects following it, she is thereby made black. 4. A continuance under it. So the Sun's looking on her, till she be made black, imports 5. There is her patient enduring of it. 6. There is her sense of it. Yet, 7. she is not ashamed of it, while she shows this her suffering to be no cause, why others should stumble at her.

5. In the rest of the 6. vers. she doth more fully explicate her answer, in so far as concerned her blacknesse (for so the words run in this 6. vers.) two wayes, 1. In setting out her sufferings in general. 2. In a more particular distribution of the kind and occasions of her seeming unlovelinesse. Generally, her sad condition is expressed in these words, The Sun hath looked upon me. The Sun in these Countreys had great heat, as we may see in Ionah ⟨p. 80⟩