“Many waters can’t
quench the love, and rivers can’t drown it. If a man would give all the wealth
of his house in exchange for love, he would be laughed to scorn.” (Song of
Songs 8:7)
This ardent sacred love
can’t be destroyed by anything, no matter how great or overwhelming it may be.
Neither can it be conditioned, acquired or exchanged by material possessions,
for the goodness of love does not cohabit with anything different from its ways
and attributes.
“Can a throne of evil be associated with You, a
framer of wickedness turned into decree?” (Psalms 94:20)
“Also the Lord gives
goodness, and our land yields its produce.” (Ibid.
85:12)
Thus we realize that
the goodness of God’s love is its own harvest, and we must assimilate that our
complete redemption is goodness as the cause and end of His creation. The more
we live in love’s ways and attributes, the more we live in God’s final
redemption.
“Our sister is little,
and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is
spoken for? If she be a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she be
a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.” (Song of Songs 8:8-9)
These verses and the
remaining ones of this poem refer to the new consciousness that awaits us in
the upcoming Messianic times. It will be a new companion as a “little sister”
for God and Israel that will unfold when our final redemption is completed. It
will be revealed either as a new paradigm, “a wall” as a walled-protected “palace
of silver”; or a new ruling principle, “a door” as an opening, to enter the
Messianic era. The “panels of cedar” are an allusion to the Tabernacle or
Temple of Jerusalem.
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