Lit., breathes. After the lover of Christ has experienced Christ in His sweet death and His fragrant resurrection (S.S. 2:14-17; 3:1-5), in her deeper pursuit she determines to stay in the sweet death of Christ (the mountain of myrrh) and His fragrant resurrection (the hill of frankincense) until her Beloved comes back (the day dawns and the shadows flee away — cf. 2 Pet. 1:19). Here it seems that the lover does not care whether her Beloved is with her or not, as long as she remains on the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense. However, it is not possible to experience Christ’s death and resurrection as something separate and apart from Christ. The death, resurrection, ascension, and Spirit of Christ are actually Christ Himself (Rom. 6:3; John 11:25; Eph. 2:6; Rom. 8:9-10). If we remain in Christ, who is the Spirit in our spirit (Rom. 8:16), and have Christ with us, we will be in His death, His resurrection, and His ascension. This is to experience Christ, to enjoy Christ.
God in His economy does not want us to experience something of Christ. Instead, He determined that we enjoy Christ Himself in many aspects. Death, resurrection, ascension, and the Spirit are the four conditions in which Christ is enjoyed by us. To die with Christ is to enjoy Christ in His death. He is always in His sweet death for our enjoyment (Gal. 2:20a). To be resurrected with Christ is to enjoy the resurrected, life-giving Christ (John 12:24). To live in ascension is to enjoy Christ in the condition of ascension (Col. 3:1-3). If we enjoy Christ in ascension, we also enjoy Him in resurrection as God’s new creation. Ascension, God’s new creation, and resurrection are one. Christ is not only in the conditions of His death, resurrection, and ascension but also in the condition of the life-giving Spirit. He is the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit of Jesus Christ to us (1 Cor. 15:45; Phil. 1:19). Where the Spirit is, Christ is, and it is in this Spirit that we enjoy Christ.