Song Of Solomon

[Beck]

You ever wonder why you never hear passages quoted as much from this book??

I mean when dealing with Love and marriage, it would be good to know what the scripture says from this book...lol..


Song of Solomon - Chapter 2:10-13

10. My lover spoke and said to me, "Arise my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
11. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
12. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come. The cooing of doves is heard in our land.
13. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me."


Song of Solomon - Chapter 1:15-16

15. How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves..
16. How handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.

Song of Solomon - Chapter 4:9-15
9. You have ravished my heart, my treasure, my bride. I am overcome by one glance of your eyes, by a single bead of your necklace.
10. How sweet is your love, my treasure, my bride! How much better it is than wine! Your perfume is more fragrant than the richest of spices.
11. Your lips, my bride, are as sweet as honey. Yes, honey and cream are under your tongue. The scent of your clothing is like that of the mountains and the cedars of Lebanon.
12. You are like a private garden, my treasure, my bride! You are like a spring that no one else can drink from, a fountain of my own.
13. You are like a lovely orchard bearing precious fruit, with the rarest of perfumes:
14. nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, myrrh and aloes, perfume from every incense tree, and every other lovely spice.
15. You are a garden fountain, a well of living water, as refreshing as the streams from the Lebanon mountains."

Solomon had GAME!!! LOL

[Grace]

Song a Solomon is a wonderful book in the Old Testament. I took a class in seminary and it dealt with OT poetry and literature and this is love poetry at its finest.

[lanl ns]

Elder, IMO I believe that people really don't want to deal with LOVE and the various aspects of Love.....which is why we have so much ignorance and confusion in the body of Christ, in Christian marriages and in Christian relationships period....

To compliment your mate with those words daily would sure bring harmony in most of these homes and will overflow into the workplace, the church etc....everywhere Love and kindness would flow.....

You know my husband address me as "My beautiful one" and now I know he just popping game from ole boy Solomon

[Beck]

lanl said:

Elder, IMO I believe that people really don't want to deal with LOVE and the various aspects of Love.....which is why we have so much ignorance and confusion in the body of Christ, in Christian marriages and in Christian relationships period....

To compliment your mate with those words daily would sure bring harmony in most of these homes and will overflow into the workplace, the church etc....everywhere Love and kindness would flow.....

You know my husband address me as "My beautiful one" and now I know he just popping game from ole boy Solomon

LOL!! ;D@ your last comment.

[Giants DO Die ns]

One of the reason why the Song Of Solomon isnt taught from might have to do with tradition. In the OT times the Song of Solomon was considered ( and still is ) a very poetic and also very sensual prose. There are references in the Song of Solomon to the intimacy between a husband and a wife and it was said that they didnt teach from this book because it often had the affect of arousing individuals

[Beulah5]

Why shd it be taught? Why cant folk themselves read it i mean even when i was an unbeliever i used to head straight for that book and read it at night as a young child while giggling.. *wink*wink

[And Such Were Some Of You]

BUMP

I thought Bro. Beck posed some good questions on this one that we should revisit, especially as it concerns L_O_V_E.

[krazeeboi]

I'm not married, so I don't think I'm allowed to read that book yet. The last thing I need to be reading is about how good some woman's breasts look.

Oh lawd, I'm finna go take a (cold) shower, I'll be back.

[Beck]

krazeeboi said:

I'm not married, so I don't think I'm allowed to read that book yet. The last thing I need to be reading is about how good some woman's breasts look.

Oh lawd, I'm finna go take a (cold) shower, I'll be back.

LOL...you aint right bro..

Why is it that people always spin this book that its talking about God's love towards the church?

[auneeqsol]

elderbeck said:

krazeeboi said:

I'm not married, so I don't think I'm allowed to read that book yet. The last thing I need to be reading is about how good some woman's breasts look.

Oh lawd, I'm finna go take a (cold) shower, I'll be back.

LOL...you aint right bro..

Why is it that people always spin this book that its talking about God's love towards the church?

Because that's the only way they feel like it will be alright to teach it in the church, if they spiritualize it to where its speaking to ppl in terms of relationship with Christ instead of a sensual, poetic, story about a man and a woman....LOL

But they do a good job in comparing it tho, oh I have heard some good sermons teaching Song of Solomon.

[Beck]

Song of Solomon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Song of Solomon or Song of Songs (Hebrew title ùéø äùéøéí, Shir ha-Shirim) is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Old Testament—one of the five megillot. It is also sometimes called by its title in the Vulgate, Canticum Canticorum, the "Canticle of Canticles." The title is later than the text [1]. The book consists of a cycle of poems about erotic love, largely in the form of a dialogue between a bridegroom and a bride. The Song of Solomon is not quoted by New Testament writers.

The text, read without allegory as a celebration of married love, appears to alternate between addressing a male object of affection and a female one. Black Madonnas illustrate a line in the Song of Songs 1:5: "I am black, but beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem ..." This is inscribed in Latin on some: Nigra sum sed formosa. It is clear that the inscription was there from the beginning. Some scholars suggest that the poems may be a series of antiphonal remarks and responses between a male and female pair, possibly created by one author rather than reflecting a genuine series of exchanged poems. Other scholars suggest that it is a collection of originally more independent poetry.

The name of the book comes from the first verse, "The Song of songs, which is of (or for) Solomon." Some believe the title "song of songs" attests to the greatness of the book. Rabbi Akiba declared, "Heaven forbid that any man in Israel ever disputed that the Song of Songs is holy. For the whole world is not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the Writings are holy and the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies. (Mishnah Yadayim 3:5). Similarly, Martin Luther called it "das Hohelied," meaning, "the high song." [2]

Some people translate the second clause of the title as "which is of Solomon," meaning that the book is authored by Solomon. According to Jewish tradition, Solomon wrote three Biblical books, corresponding to three states in a man's life: Song of Songs, which expresses the lustful vigor of youth; Proverbs, which expresses the wisdom of maturity; and Ecclesiastes, which expresses the cynicism of old age. Others translate the second clause as "which is for Solomon," meaning that the book is dedicated to Solomon. Some read the book as contrasting the nobility of monogamous love with the debased nature of promiscuous love, and suggest that the book is actually a veiled criticism of Solomon, who is said to have had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

Although the book never mentions God by name, an allegorical interpretation justified its inclusion in the Biblical canon. According to Jewish tradition in the Midrash and the Targum, it is an allegory of God's love for the Children of Israel. In Christian tradition that began with Origen, it is allegory for the relationship of Christ and the Church or Christ and the individual believer (see the Sermons on the Song of Songs by Bernard of Clairvaux). This type of allegorical interpretation was applied later to even passing details in parables of Jesus. It is also heavily used in Sufi poetry.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination in Joseph Smith restorationism, does not recognize the Song of Solomon as authoritative [3], although it is included in the Church's canon and printed in Church-published copies of the Bible.

Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) of 2006 refers to the Song of Songs in both its literal and allegorical meaning, stating that erotic love (eros) and self-donating love (agape) is shown there as the two halves of true love, which is both giving and receiving.

(Compare Ps. 45; Isa. 54:4-6; 62:4, 5; Jer. 2:2; 3:1, 20; Ezek. 16; Hos. 2:16, 19, 20. Compare also Matt. 9:15; John 3:29; Eph. 5:23, 27, 29; Rev. 19:7-9; 21:2, 9; 22:17.)