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Culled from his own notes on his series of lectures on the Song of Solomon to the Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Ironside reworks his addresses into this singular commentary. In his introduction, Ironside evaluates competing interpretations of the Song of Solomon—the extent to which the book is about literal love between two individuals or a symbolic love between Yahweh and Israel or Christ...

love” (1 Cor. 13:8); “love strong as death” (John 15:13); “ointment poured forth” (John 12:3); “draw me” (John 6:44); “the Shepherd leading His flock” (John 10:4, 5, 27); and “the fruits of righteousness” (Phil. 1:11). Who can fail to see in all these allusions to the Song of Solomon? If we grant that it is inspired, what then are its lessons? Why do we have it in Holy Scripture? Many of the Jewish teachers thought of it simply as designed of God to give a right apprehension of conjugal love. They
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