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Originally Posted by Igzy
Let me bail you out then by saying that it is not wrong to see God in the Song of Songs, because God created sex and said it was "good." And God is expressed in his creation. So love and sex express God. So the Song of Songs can be a spiritual book. This is much like seeing God in a sunset or mountain range. In one sense it's just nature, on the other hand it expresses God.
But I doubt very much that Solomon intended his poem to be interpreted as an allegory of God and his people. It may have been in the back of his mind, but I'm pretty sure he was writing mostly about his human feelings. But just as creation expresses God, a poem about something he created shows him forth as well. All good things glorify God, because he's the source of all good.
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Hello dear brothers Igzy and Ohio,
I just found out something really shocking about Song of Songs! In the back of the
Greek New Testament, Fourth Revised Edition, published by the United Bible Societies (i.e. the so-called USB4 version of the Greek New Testament), there are two tables. One lists all the passages from the Old Testament quoted by the New Testament. The other lists all the passages from the Old Testament for which there are allusions or parallels in the New Testament.
What I found out is that Song of Songs is the
ONLY book in the Old Testament which is not quoted or alluded to by the authors of the New Testament! Even short little books like Obadiah and Nahum are alluded to at least once in the New Testament! All that rich allegorical imagery in Songs of Songs and both Jesus and His apostles never referenced it and certainly never tried to interpret it.
Maybe you both already knew this, but I just found this out and I was quite shocked!
