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Yet another tiny little book in the Old Testament. What we have here is a fairly long, very erotic poem. I have heard that the poetic imagery masks some pretty kinky stuff - but I have no desire to get into that. I wonder sometimes if this book was included in the sacred writings to give the celibate Catholic priests something to do on the long, cold nights between sermons? (Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more!)
SOS 5:1 - I come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gather my
myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink wine
with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love.
I hesitate to think about what all these
references mean in sexual terms. However, the last sentence seems to
be inviting multiple people to this activity - maybe an
orgy?
SOS 5:7 - Making their rounds in the city the sentinels found me;
they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle, those
sentinels of the walls.
Odd, isn't it, that even in the midst of a poem
of love and sex, mention of violence is never far away in the
Bible?
