10/4/2023 0 Comments Song of solomon bible study guideThe Epithalamium is the congratulatory song, sung to a new married pair, wishing them abundant blessings, a numerous and happy offspring, etc. The Pastoral contains what belongs to shepherds, and their occupations.Ĥ. The Idyl implies a short poem, containing some adventure.ģ. The Ode is generally understood to be a species of poetry containing sublime and important matter, always sung, or accompanied by the harp, or some proper musical instrument.Ģ. ![]() Though Anacreon made amatory odes when he was bald-headed, yet neither he nor any one else, humanly speaking, could have made such odes as the Canticles when stricken in years.īut to what denomination of writing do the Canticles belong? Are they mere Odes, or Idyls, or Pastorals or are they an Epithalamium? Let us define these terms, and examine the Song of Solomon by them.ġ. It is most likely to have been a juvenile or comparatively juvenile production and indeed the high and glowing colouring, and the strength of the images, are full proofs of this. And the Song most certainly celebrates a marriage whether between Solomon and the daughter of Pharaoh, or between him and some Jewish princess, has not been fully agreed on among critics and commentators. This book, if written by Solomon, could not have been written in his old age, as some have supposed the book of Ecclesiastes to have been which sentiment is, I think, sufficiently disproved for we find that long before Solomon's old age he had three hundred wives, and seven hundred concubines but at the time this Song was written, Solomon had only sixty wives and eighty concubines. Both books seem to have been written about the same time, and to have had the same author. Most have, without hesitation, attributed it to Solomon, whose name it bears and if the book of Ecclesiastes be his, this will follow in course, as the style is exactly the same, allowing for the difference of the subject. ![]() ![]() Some of the rabbins supposed it to be the work of the prophet Isaiah but this sentiment never gained much credit. There have been some doubts concerning the author of this book. It may therefore be designed to express "a song of the utmost perfection one of the best that existed, or had ever been penned." Perhaps the title may have a reference to the other poetical compositions of Solomon, which were no less than one thousand and five and this was considered the most excellent of the whole, and the only one that remains, unless we suppose Solomon, with some of the Jews, to be the author of Psalms 72:0 and Psalms 127:1-5 : but this cannot be proved. The book before us is called in the Hebrew שיר השירים Shir Hashshirim, "The Song of Songs " or, "An Ode of the Odes:" which might be understood, "An Ode taken or selected from others of a similar kind " or, "An Ode the most excellent of all others " this being an idiom common to the Hebrew language: e.g., the God of gods is the supreme God the Lord of lords, the supreme Lord the King of kings, the supreme King the heaven of heavens, the supreme or highest heaven.
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