Like the Apple Tree

This is only one of the many descriptions which the Bride gives to us in this book, of the beauty and glory of her husband-king; the Lord Jesus Christ. He is like an apple tree among the trees of the wood. She is comparing her beloved to a great and beautiful apple tree; a tree that has been of the greatest help and encouragement to her that she could possibly imagine. In comparing her beloved to an apple tree she is trying to convey three things. She is, first of all, trying to convey to her friends and acquaintances His greatness among all the trees of the wood. Second, she is trying to convey to them His fruitfulness among all the trees of the wood. Thus she would win them to approve of her Beloved in every sense; that He was a great and good Lord and husband to her.