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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 3 — Song of Solomon 3:6 – 5:1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 3 — Song of Solomon 3:6 – 5:1. Show all posts

21 December, 2017

Search The Scriptures —Study 3 — Song of Solomon 3:6 – 5:1

Study 3 From the Book of Song of Solomon is: Song of Solomon 3:6 – 5:1


        1-     What do you make of Solomon’s entrance here, and of his part in the whole of the Son? See also, e.g., 1:1, 12; 6:8, 9, 12; 7:1,5; 8:11, 12.
        2-     What do these frank expressions of a man’s physical delight in his bride teach us about the place of sexual attraction in love and marriage? What is the significance of the private garden image?
        3-     Scripture uses marriage as a picture of God’s relationship to His people and Christ’s relationship to His church. See, e.g., Is. 62:4, 5; Eph. 5:21-33. Is there, therefore, a sense in which 4:8-15 illustrates this relationship? Cf. Pss. 147:10, 11; 149:1. Is our heart reserved for Christ alone?

Notes
        1-     3:7. ‘Liter: in verse 9, ;palanquin’: a couch covered by a canopy home by four or more men.
        2-     4:4. The neck, decked with ornaments, is compared to a battlemented tower, hung with shields.
         3-     4:8. On the three-character analysis the bride hears the voice of her beloved, calling her to himself and the verse may be taken as a poetic description of the dangers to which she is exposed in the palace.