2. For the ornaments of his head; his locks, they
are said to be “bushy,” or curled, “black as a raven.” His curled locks
are black; “as a raven,” is added by way of illustration of the blackness,
not with any allusion to the nature of the raven. Take the head spoken of
in a political sense: his locks of hair — said to be
curled, as seeming to be entangled, but really falling in
perfect order and beauty, as bushy locks — are his thoughts, and counsels,
and ways, in the administration of his kingdom. They are black or
dark, because of their depth and unsearchableness, — as
God is said to dwell in thick darkness; and curled or
bushy, because of their exact interweavings, from his
infinite wisdom. His thoughts are many as the hairs of the head, seeming
to be perplexed and entangled, but really set in a comely order, as curled
bushy hair; deep and unsearchable, and dreadful to his enemies,
and full of beauty and comeliness to his beloved. Such are, I say, the
thoughts of his heart, the counsels of his wisdom, in reference to the
administrations of his kingdom:— dark, perplexed, involved, to a carnal
eye; in themselves, and to his saints, deep, manifold, ordered in all
things, comely, desirable.