Who is she [that] looketh forth as the morning?.... These words may be connected with the preceding, by a supplement of the word "saying"; and so may express what the daughters said, when they blessed and praised the church, wondering at her beauty, it being like the rising morning; so Helena is said to show her beautiful face, awvantelloisa, as the morning, when it springs forth : there was a city in the tribe of Reuben, called Zarethshahar, the beauty or splendour of the morning, Jos 13:19.
Homer often describes the morning by her rosy fingers , and as clothed with a saffron garment , and as beautiful and divine , and fair haired ; and as on a golden throne and beautiful .