Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran @keilanddelitzsch

The Song is the darkest book in Scripture, and no interpreter has mastered it wholly; passages remain inexplicable no matter what method you choose. Yet the Jews rightly held it canonical by reading it as spiritual allegory, not earthly love-song: Israel is the bride, Solomon represents the Lord Himself, and the whole traces Israel's history from Exodus to Messiah. This is why they forbade study of it before age thirty.

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