Song of Solomon 5:10

My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

My beloved is white and ruddy. The believer is 'ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in him with meekness and fear' (1 Peter 3:15).

White and ruddy - health and beauty. So David, i:e., beloved, Messiah's forefather after the flesh, and type (1 Samuel 17:42). "The Lamb" is at once His nuptial and sacrificial name, characterized by white and red: white, His spotless manhood (Revelation 1:14). The Hebrew ( tsach (H6703)) for white is properly illuminated by the sun, "white as

the light" (cf. Matthew 17:2); red, in His blood-dyed garment, as slain (Revelation 5:6; Revelation 19:13). Angels are white, not red; the blood of martyrs does not enter heaven. His alone is seen there (Isaiah 63:1).

Chiefest (dagul) - literally, a standard-bearer; i:e., as conspicuous above all others as a standard-bearer is among hosts (Psalms 45:7; Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 55:4; Hebrews 2:10; Job 33:23: cf. the type, 2 Samuel 18:3). The chief of sinners needs the "chiefest" of Saviours. Psalms 45:2; Lamentations 4:7, the "Nazarites" being types of Him, in that they "were purer than snow ... whiter than milk ... more ruddy in body than rubies"