Study
6 From the Book of Song of Solomon is: Song of Solomon 8:5-14
1- What does
this passage add to all we have already learnt of the nature of love? What
attacks may true love have to face?
2- What
qualities are here shown to be characteristic of true love?
Notes
1- 8:6. ‘Set me
as a real…’ in ancient times men carried their seal fastened to breast or wrist
for safe preservation. The girl desires
to be thus held fast on the heart and arm of her beloved. ‘Jealousy is cruel as the grave’: better,
‘Ardent love is unyielding as Sheol’.
2- 8:8-10. The
girl recalls her brothers’ earlier words. They had waited to see if she would
be as a wall against temptation, or as an open door to give it entrance. Here
she claims that she has shown herself as a wall.
3- 8:11, 12.
Solomon appears to have offered her a vineyard of great wealth; but she put it
aside in favour of the vineyard which was hers in her beloved.
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