Song of Solomon 7:10

In this verse the bride openly rejects the king whom she had already tacitly rejected, saying, -I belong to my beloved alone, and he on his part longs after me only." As Oettli says, the words should be conceived as uttered with an almost triumphant gesture of rejection towards Solomon. Budde supposes Song of Solomon 7:10 to be perhaps an editorial connecting clause borrowed from ch. Song of Solomon 2:16, as Martineau and Bickell also do.