These twin realities, Love and Death, which haunt every sentient soul, are mentioned together toward the end of the Canticle. The asseveration that “Love is strong as Death,” 8:6, must be the climax and immortal message of the Sublime Song. The sepulchral love scene (Plate XII) proposed as the jacket of this volume speaks to this suggestion more eloquently than words. In the Hebrew Bible the Song of Songs is placed among the Writings, kĕṯûḇîm,
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