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- Origen (c.185-c.254), an important teacher in the early church, said of the Song of Solomon: “I advise and counsel everyone who is not yet rid of vexations of the flesh and blood, and has not ceased to feel the passions of this bodily nature, to refrain from reading the book and the things that will be said about it.”
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At no time, Origen thinks, did the human scribe (Solomon the prophet) or its divine author ever intend the Song (1) to be an earthly marriage‐song, (2) to dramatize a story of human espousal, marriage, and physical erôs, or (3) to exalt and laud human married love.
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the Song was related to the mutual love of Christ and the Church as his bride, and Origen the exegete picked up and passed on this theme to posterity. Because the Song's theme is basically one of love, it represents the zenith of the spiritual life.
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Oct 6, 2005 · These hermeneutical demands lead Origen to make the greatest conceivable claims for the character of the Song, namely that the Song fully and intelligibly represents the eschatological mystery, manifesting the ‘spirit’ of Scripture in the plan form of a text.
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Over a hundred years ago Delitzsch proposed that the Song of Songs was in the form of a drama depicting Solomon falling in love with a Shulammite girl (i.e., the Song is a dramatic "script" that was originally intended to be acted and/or sung).
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The aim of Origen's procedure is to introduce the reader into the context present through prophetic mediation at the ‘limits’ of the text and so to open the ‘spiritual’ meaning of the song even while conserving the formal elements that give each song a ‘somatic’ character as an historical event.
Mar 14, 2020 · Bible. Song of Solomon, Bible. Song of Solomon -- Commentaries, Bible. A.T. Cantique des cantiques -- Commentaires, Bible O.T Song of Solomon Commentaries Publisher Westminster, Maryland : Newman Press Collection marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Volume 26
