Emphasis Preaching Journal
The Song of Solomon is...
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The Song of Solomon is a love song. The Puritan sentiments of the worthies who produced the King James Version of the Bible would not permit them to entertain the thought of a love song being in the scriptures. So they inserted under the title of the book these words, "A Love Song of Christ to His Church." It is a love song through which pulses beautiful and sensitive thoughts and scenes. It was the late Archbishop Wilham Temple who observed, "It is a great mistake to think that God is only interested in religion."
-- Kolsti
-- Kolsti