With chains of gold.—The Divine nature. Each act of loyal burden-bearing becomes a link in the golden chain.
1:11. We—My Father and I.
Will make thee borders—“A House not made with hands eternal in the Heavens.”
Of gold—The Divine nature.
With studs of silver—The House will be truly yours; that which is your own.
1:12. While the King—The Bride thus speaks of her Lord.
Sitteth at His table—Breaking the Bread of Life to His Household.
My spikenard—Devotion, as Illustrated by Mary's alabaster box.
Sendeth forth the smell thereof—“Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the Scriptures?” At such times the fires of Heavenly love burn fiercest.
1:13. A bundle of myrrh—Wisdom. “In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.”