the perspective that the Song celebrates, as we will see. It glorifies as the ideal human relationship a single-hearted, lifelong, devoted, and exclusive relationship between one man and one woman. Typically, when Christians talk about why premarital sex, adultery, easy divorce, or homosexuality is wrong, we go straight to the legal passages of the Bible and point to the thou shalt nots. Of course, those laws are true and biblical, the loving commands of our heavenly Father, who knows the destructive