makes grows out of a solid understanding of the text. The word for ‘white’ (ṣaḥ) used in describing the beloved here may better be translated ‘radiant’ (NIV; ESV), and is not used elsewhere in the Old Testament to describe purity; the Hebrews would never have equated the head with the mind, and the fact that the whites of the man’s eyes were, well, ‘white’ has nothing to do with his avoidance of debauched living. Now the kind of free association that Richard Brooks and Tommy Nelson are engaged in