5:16 most sweet. In the days of His flesh, “grace was poured into thy lips” (Psalm 45:2). When He returns in judgment, “out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations” (Revelation 19:15).

5:16 altogether lovely. In His humanity, He was altogether lovely, with no fault in Him, and so will He be throughout eternity to all who love Him. But all who reject or ignore him will one day cry in vain for the very rocks and mountains of the earth to “fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb” (Revelation 6:16).