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Learn about the unique and beautiful book of Song of Solomon, a collection of poetic songs celebrating romantic and marital love. Explore the literal and secondary meanings of the text, the historical and cultural context, and the interpretive approaches of different commentators.
Song Of Solomon 1. In this chapter, after the title of the book (ver 1), we have Christ and his church, Christ and a believer, expressing their esteem for each other. I. The bride, the church, speaks to the bridegroom ( ver 2-4), to the daughters of Jerusalem (ver 5, 6), and then to the bridegroom, ver 7. II.
One writer in the third century wrote a ten-volume commentary on Song of Solomon, telling how the book describes God’s love for Christians.” (Estes) Trapp expresses this perspective: “The chief speakers are not Solomon and the Shulamite… but Christ and his Church.”
The camp in the wilderness represents the Church in the world; the peaceful reign of Solomon, after all enemies had been subdued, represents the Church in heaven, of which joy the Song gives a foretaste.
Explore the Song of Solomon and its poetic instruction on sexual and marital intimacy. This TGC Bible Commentary is written by Douglas Sean O'Donnell.
Song of Solomon. All scripture, we are sure, is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for the support and advancement of the interests of his kingdom among men, and it is never the less so for there being found in it some things dark and hard to be understood, which those that are unlearned and unstable wrest to their own destruction.
{Song of Solomon 3:6-11} It is by one of the gates of Jerusalem, where the country maiden has been brought in order that she may be impressed by the gorgeous spectacle of Solomon returning from a royal progress. The king comes up from the wilderness in clouds of perfume, guarded by sixty men-at-arms, and borne in a magnificent palanquin of ...
