Whether the poet intended it or canonization imposes it, the Song’s canonical entity posits an analogy of the love between human lovers with the relation between God and his people, precisely with respect to the erotic aspect of human love. By the classic understanding of Creator/ creature analogies, most clearly developed by Thomas Aquinas, this does not mean that our eroticism is the original and that we construe God’s relation to his people by projecting it—as recent “metaphor theology” rather