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Steve Webb: Both interpretations
are beautiful, and both have

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merit.

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It's the Lifespring! One Year
Bible coming to you from

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Riverside, California and
podcasting since 2004. My name

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is Steve Webb. I'm your OG
Godcaster is poetry Thursday,

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our reading will be Song of
Solomon, chapters five and six.

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The website is
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have contact information in case
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at the end of the show. Before
we read, let's pray. Our

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Heavenly Father, we thank you
for our time together. We thank

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You for Your Word. and we pray
that as we read today, you would

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teach us touch our hearts in our
minds. We pray this in Jesus

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name, Amen. All right, let's
begin.

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Song of Solomon chapter five. I
have come to my garden, my

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sister, my bride. I gather my
myrrh with my spices. I eat my

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honeycomb with my honey. I drink
my wine with my milk, eat

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friends, drink, be intoxicated
with love. I sleep but my heart

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is awake. A sound My love is
knocking. Open to me my sister

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My darling My Dove my perfect
one. For my head is drenched

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with do my hair with droplets of
the night. I have taken off my

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clothing. How can I put it back
on? I have washed my feet. How

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can I get them dirty? My love
thrusts his hand through the

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opening, and my feelings were
stirred for him. I rose to open

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from my love. My hands dripped
with myrrh, my fingers with

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flowing myrrh on the handles of
the bolt. I opened to my love,

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but my love had turned and gone
away. I was crushed that he had

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left. I sought him but did not
find him. I called him but he

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did not answer. The guards who
go about the city found me. They

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beat and wounded me. They took
my cloak from me. The Guardians

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of the walls. Young Women of
Jerusalem I charge you. If you

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find my love, tell him that I
love sick. What makes the one

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you love better than another
most beautiful of women? What

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makes him better than another
that you would give us this

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charge? My love is fit and
strong. Notable among 10,000 His

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head is purest gold. His hair is
wavy and black is a raven. His

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eyes are like doves besides
streams of water, washed in milk

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and set like jewels. His cheeks
are like beds of spice towers of

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perfume. His lips are lilies
dripping with flowing myrrh. His

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arms are rods of gold set with
Topaz. His body is an ivory

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panel covered with sapphires.
His legs are alabaster pillars

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set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon as

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majestic as the cedars. His
mouth is sweetness. He is

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absolutely desirable. This is my
love. and this is my friend

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Young Women of Jerusalem.

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Song of Solomon chapter six.
Where has your love gone most

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beautiful of women. Which way
has he turned we will seek Him

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with you. My love has gone down
to his garden to beds of spice

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to feed in the gardens and
gather lilies. I and my loves

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and my love is mine. He feeds
among the lilies. You are as

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beautiful as Tirza my darling
lovely as Jerusalem. All

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inspiring is an army with
banners turn your eyes away from

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me for they captivate me. Your
hair is like a flock of goats

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streaming down from Gilead. Your
teeth are like a flock of us

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coming up from washing, each one
having a twin and not one

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missing. Behind your veil your
brows like a slice of

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pomegranate. There are 60 Queens
and 80 concubines and young

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women without number. But my
dove my virtuous one is unique.

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She is the favorite of her
mother, perfect to the one who

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gave her birth. Women see her
and declare her fortunate queens

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and concubines also and they
sing her praises. Who is this

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who shines like a dawn as
beautiful as the moon bride is

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the sun. All inspiring is an
army with banners. I came down

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to the Walnut Grove to see the
blossoms of the valley to see if

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the vines were budding and the
pomegranates blooming. Before I

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knew it, my desire put me among
the chariots of my noble people.

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Come back, come back Shulamite
come back come back that we may

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look at you. Why are you looking
at the Shulamite as you look at

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the dance of the two camps.

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Beloved, as you probably know
this book The Song of Solomon

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can be read from at least two
levels. It can be read as an

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account of a bride and groom
from a purely human level or as

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an ally. Glory of the love of
Christ for the church. Both

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interpretations are beautiful,
and both have merit. Now, as I

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was studying this book again in
preparation for how to present

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it to you, I came upon an
interesting fact. In times past,

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Jewish teachers often advised
their young people not to read

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it until they were 30 years old,
because they were afraid that

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the book would stir up feelings
of lust in them. While reading

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the language with a very
different vocabulary today, it's

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a bit difficult to imagine it
having that effect on us, I

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suppose. But their fears are
understandable, don't you think?

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But if we look at the book from
the allegorical perspective, we

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see how much Christ loves His
church, and how much we should

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love him. I ran across the
following excerpt from the great

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19th century preacher, Charles
Spurgeon, he said in reference

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to a portion of chapter 15,
which reads in the King James,

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yay, he is altogether lovely.
These following words, looking

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at my text, I felt much humbling
of spirit, and I hesitated to

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preach upon it for I said, in my
heart, it is high I cannot

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attain to it. These deep texts
show us the shortness of our

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plumb line. These ocean verses
are so exceeding broad, that our

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skills are apt to be driven far
out of sight of land where our

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timid spirits trembled to spread
the sail. Then I comforted

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myself by the thought that
though I could not comprehend

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this text in a measure, Norway,
its mountains in scales, or its

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hills in a balance, yet it was
all mine own by the gift of

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divine grace, and therefore, I
need not fear to enter upon the

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meditation of it. If I cannot
grasp the ocean in my span, yet

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me I bathe there in with sweet
content, if I cannot describe

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the king and his beauty, yet May
I gaze upon him, since the old

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proverb says, a beggar may look
at a prince, though I pretend

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not to preach from such a
heavenly word is that before us

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as to spread before you all its
marrow and fatness. Yet May I

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gather up a few crumbs which
fall from its table, for men are

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glad of crumbs and crumbs from
such a feast are better than

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loaves from the tables of the
world, better to have a glimpse

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of Jesus, than to see all the
glory of the earth all the days

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of our life. If we fail on this
subject, we may do better than

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if we succeeded upon another. So
we will pluck up courage, seek

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divine help, and draw near to
this wondrous text with our

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shoes from off our feet like
Moses when he saw the bush or

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glow with God. This verse has
been translated in another way,

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he is all desires. and so indeed
Jesus is, he was the desire of

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the ancients. He is the desire
of all nations, still, to his

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own people. He is there all in
all, they are complete in Him,

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they are filled out of his
fullness. He is the delight of

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his servants, and fills their
expectations to the full, but we

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will not dispute about
translations. For after all, was

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such a text so full of
unutterable spiritual sweetness.

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Every man must be his own
translator, and into his own

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soul must the power of the
message come by the enforcement

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of the Holy Spirit. Such a text
as this is very like manna which

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fell in the wilderness which the
rabbi's say it tasted after each

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man's liking. If the flavor in a
man's mouth was very sweetness,

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the angels food which fell
around the camp was luscious as

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any dainty he had conceived,
whatever he might be, the manner

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was to him as he was, so shall
this text be to you with low

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ideas of Christ, the Word shall
but glide over your ears and be

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meaningless. But if your spirit
be ravished with a precious love

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of Jesus, there shall be songs
of angels and more than that,

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the voice of God's own spirit to
your soul. That was from

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Spurgeon, the treasury of the
Old Testament, and I can't

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improve on what he wrote. So I'm
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