The husband tells how much they enjoyed each other together after his wife’s invitation. He relates how this has strengthened and encouraged him in a very special way. We see here how the initiative for intimacy in marriage does not have to come from the husband alone. In the love between a husband and his wife, as Christ likes to see it, it is no disgrace when the one indicates to the other that he or she longs for this intimate contact. Then it is good if one and later the other takes the initiative. When we long for this intimate fellowship, when we enjoy it together as husband and wife, we do this even to the glory of God. It is something for which we give thanks to God. Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman is also an answer to the later call of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 6:20: For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body [and in your spirit, which are God’s] (the last part per some manuscripts, cf. NKJV).

The husband in the Song of Solomon can therefore conclude here with the words, Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love! The man is calling upon his friends to do the same as he. To enjoy each other based on a life with the Lord. It is a call to seek intimate intercourse with your own wife again and again and to thank God for the gift he has given in this.

Here husband and wife are marvelling at each other based on Christ’s love, and they are working at it so they will continue loving each other in this way; to continue to encourage and help each other in all matters of life.