Scripture with the awareness that it is through the person of Jesus Christ that God has revealed his love and in whom all the riches of God’s grace are to be found. All of the OT revelations of God’s gracious love point toward and are fulfilled by Christ. Therefore a Christological hermeneutic is appropriate for the interpretation of all the OT Scriptures as well as the NT. An analogical hermeneutic interprets the Song’s love poetry in light of the analogy in Scripture between God’s love and the
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