The Garden and the Beloved (Paid Version)
Song of Songs 2:8-13, James 1:17-27, Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
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Song of Songs 2:8-13 1
Song of Songs is one of the most commented on books in all of scripture, partly because, on the surface, it does not seem to “fit” in well with the rest of the canon. It is unique in its expression of what Robert Jenson calls “explicit, though never quite pornographic, poetry of physical love.…