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Relationships are a wonderful, mysterious, often elusive, sometimes painful part of the human experience. The most intimate of all human relationships, according to the Bible, is that between a husband and a wife. It is no surprise, therefore, that there is a book of the Bible, the Song of Songs, that focuses on this relationship. What is surprising is how little attention is given to the Song of...

6 The woman describes her embrace with the man. 30 The best understanding of the verse is that they are lying down and the man has slipped his left arm under her head, and, as he cradles her head on his arm, he has reached over and pulled her toward him. This is not a response to her fatigue but rather an expression of a desire for more lovemaking. This verse recurs in 8:3 and serves as one of the refrains of the Song that bind the whole together (see Introduction: Structure). The context certainly
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