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

Vers. 10. I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

Vers. 10. I am a wall, and my brests like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

In this tenth verse, and the two verses that follow, the Bride comes-in speaking and accepting the Bridegrooms gracious answer and promise: And first, she doth confirm the truth of it from her own experience, vers. 10. and then, she doth more fully clear and strengthen her experience, by laying down the grounds from which she draweth that comfortable conclusion (of finding favour in his eyes) in reference unto her self, vers. 11, 12.

First then, in the tenth verse, the Bride brings forth her experience, for confirmation of the truth of what the Bridegroom had spoken: That they are the Brides words, we conceive is clear; for, this I, is she that put up the suit for the little sister, and by her description is opposed to her, as being a wall, and having breasts as towers, which she, the little sister had not; and there is none other that hath found favour in Christ's eyes but she. What the scope is, shall be cleared when we have opened the words; which have three things in them, 1. A short description of her own good condition. 2. An excellent advantage that followed thereupon. 3. The connection of these two. First, her condition is set forth in two expressions, 1. I am a wall: That is, what the little sister was not, and what the condition, proposed by the Bridegroom in the former verse, required: In a word, that condition is fulfilled in me (saith she) by faith I am built on Christ, and like a wall stand stable on the foundation. The second expression, setting forth her condition, is, and my breasts like towers: This supposeth a growth, and further degree of her faith and other graces, as having not only breasts, which the little sister had not, vers. 8. but breasts like towers, i.e. well fashioned,