It has been accepted as an elaborate allegory of the love-story of God and his people Israel; and indeed, it is possible to find many correspondences between the changing fortunes of the bride in the poems and the sequence in Israel's history of conversion, hope, disillusion and hope renewed. On the other hand the book has been explained as a collection of poems about true love and marriage in which any apparent allusions to Israel's history are accidental.
People has found it surprising that a book that makes no mention of God and whose vocabulary is so passionate should figure in the sacred canon. The doubts in Jewish circles of the 1st century A.D. were, however, settled by an appeal to tradition. On these same grounds the Christian Church has always accepted the Song as part of holy scripture.
Whatever theory of interpretation, are adopted and justified in applying the Song to the mutual love of Christ and his Church or to the union of the individual soul with God.
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I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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