Keil & Delitzsch on Song of Solomon 6:3

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, Who feeds among the lilies, Shulamith farther proceeds, followed by the daughters of Jerusalem, to seek her friend lost through her own fault. She always says, not אישׁי, but דּודי and רעי; for love, although a passion common to mind and body, is in this Song of Songs viewed as much as possible apart from its basis in the animal nature. Also, that the description hovers between that of the clothed and the unclothed, gives to it an ideality favourable to the mystical interpretation. Nakedness is ערוה. But at the cross nakedness appears transported from the sphere of sense to that of the supersensuous. Song of Solomon (Canticles) 6:4

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