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This is the meaning of the Song of Songs. This is the Old Testament climax of the series of figures that runs all the way from Eden to the Millennial throne. The opening picture of the Bible is a love song—two hearts, the one born out of the other, and then given back to it in perfect unison, the central figures of earth’s first Paradise.
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Anthology Of Love Songs— Some think of this Song as a collection of shorter songs of love. One source—Hannah’s Bible Outlines—sets the number at 13. • “Song of Songs is a short anthology of love poems of various lengths, sung by the bride, the bridegroom, and their friends” (Pfeiffer, p.708).
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May 4, 2017 · Let me compare Pope’s and Falk’s translations of the famous passage in the Song of Songs that proclaims love to be as strong as death (Song of Songs 8:6–7). (See the sidebar to this article). Both translations are very good, but they are also very different. Pope tries to match each Hebrew word as closely as possible with an English one.
But the 1 More precisely, “The Song of the Songs of Solomon,” based upon the Hebrew title of the book ()שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים אֲשֶׁר לִשְׁלֹמֹה. 2 Cited in Marvin H. Pope, Song of Songs: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, in The Anchor Bible, ed. William F. Albright and David N. Freedman (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, 1977), 89 ...
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the poem, a feature that the Song of Songs shares with Arabic . hijā. ʾ poetry. 3. The female lover notes that other women love the male protagonist as well, both here and in the final stich of the next verse. See also 6:9, though in this passage we learn that other women acclaim the female lover. The praise by others, external
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THRU THE BIBLE #1 SONG OF SOLOMON PICTURES MARRIED LOVE It sets forth, first of all, the glory of wedded love. It tells us of one of the most important phases of our lives, the sacredness of marriage. It teaches us marriage is a divine institution. The Song of Songs teaches what real love is. It reveals the heart of a satisfied husband and ...
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“Love is as strong as death, its passions are as severe as the grave. Its flashes are of fire, a divine flame. Many waters cannot extinguish love, rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, he would be utterly scorned.” The poem highlights the power and intensity of love.
