What does 'Song of songs' really mean.
Hellp Zoey,
Here I am about 'Song of Songs.
You asked: " It is a song about a fantastic looking pretty girl and an absolute handsome boy. But what is the deeper meaning".
The contents of this biblebook can be given in short as follows:
There is a young, nice girl. For sure she KNOWS that she is looking good. Very often she has looked at herself in the water of the brooklet, ( a looking glass of course she has not). But she has to work hard and observes very well, that her skin has been scorched by the fierce son. And there is nobody, having really interest for her. She often feels herself very disappointed. (1 v 6).
And then at once there is that gentle, joyful boy, asking where she feeds her herd and how she is herself. At last someone having interest for her, ( v 7)!!
At last interest, warm sympaty. And very soon already a spark leaps over. And they both sing in alternate singing about their love-sickness ( 1 v 9,- 2 v 15), (4 v 16- 5v 1)
And when the boy goes away, the love-laden girlie sings about her friend, ( 2 v 8-17) And so does the boy about his newly found girl-friend, ( 6 v 4- 7 v 5).
At night , in her own home the girl has such a creepy dream. She dreams , thar 'her boy' is standing before the door and asks to be let in. She wants to do so, but as it is so often in a dream: she does very stupid. And when at last she wants to let him in, he is gone and there happen all sorts of bad things.( 5 v 2 - 7)
The girls in her neighbourhood ask, whatever tremendous she thinks about that guy. They know him too. But...that he is so far more special than all those other chaps...not just that.... Now...then she knows to explain it very well, ( 5 v 8- 6 v 3).
And later on it appears very clearly, what indeed is so special to this lad....he is the king !!!!, in the beginning somewhat hidden, but it becomes ever more clear. And see, how many surprises he has for the girl. !!!
Zoey....when these youngsters make compliments one to another, sometimes this sounds quite unusually in our ears. For instance when the boy speaks about the nose of his beloved one , as if that nose were 'a tower'. In our days a girl should say very quickly: "Come off it" But those trifles you ought to look-over.
And this is the lesson. Always there are people in every possible age-group, who sometimes say to themselves: " Oh...I look dreadfully, I am just like a drowned kitten. And nobody, having really interest in me". And then they meet Jesus. And with a shock of joy they establish: "Jesus indeed has interest for me, I begin to love him, and I know, that my spiritual love is answered.
And then ther ARE times, that we lose him throught own contrariness and then things go always worse.
But when we find him back afterwards, it appears gradually to us,who our dear Lord Jesus is really. The Lord of heaven and earth, all-powerful, eternal...not any superlative reaches.
Greetings Ger
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