O That thou wert as my brother] The Church desires such an inward and entire familiarity and amity with Christ, as a sister hath with a brother. yea I should not he despised] Men would not contemn me, as now they do in thine absence or, they would take no exception to my familiar conversing with thee, in whom there is so much excellency: or, my love should not be rejected by thee, v. 7.