Return from leaving
When the amount of time a couple spends together like this decreases, dissatisfaction and problems arise at first, but in the end, they often give up and become indifferent to each other.
1. A Shulammite woman who refuses Solomon's request and regrets it. (5:2-8), The Shulammite woman recalls the crisis that occurred between herself and her husband in a dream. Verse 2: “Even though I sleep, my heart is awake, and I hear the voice of the one I love; I knock on the door and say, My sister. My love. my dove. I say open the door to my full sleep,
Dew on my hair. It is said that my hair was full of night dew.” The dream begins with her husband, Solomon, knocking on the door of a Shulammite woman. He was dreaming, “Even if I sleep, my heart is awake.” However, this dream was usually a reflection of her anxiety and worries.
In her dream, she hears her “beloved,” Solomon, calling to her and knocking on the door. Solomon asks his wife, using titles that are full of affection “My sister” is intimacy and expression, “my love” is the feeling of a lover, “my dove” is a compliment for his wife’s innocence, and he lacks nothing more,
As a woman who cannot be compared to any other woman, she “calls me perfect. Also describe your circumstances. He is standing outside now, drenched in the night dew. In Palestine, the temperature difference between night and day is so large that it often gets drenched in dew at night. Solomon is sorry for coming to visit his wife late at night due to his busy schedule.
So, he seeks his wife's understanding and sympathy by describing himself as drenched in dew. However, the Shulammite woman, who is already in bed, is troubled by Solomon's request to open the door. “I have taken off my clothes, so how can I put them back on? Since I have washed my feet, how can I defile myself again?” (verse 3).
To go to sleep, “I have taken off my clothes, I will put them on again” means in a nutshell, getting up to meet my husband is annoying. When I woke up, I looked at the door and saw that he was “pushing his hand through the crack.” But when she opened the door and looked out, he was already gone.
A Shulammite woman is constantly searching for her husband in her dreams. However, instead of looking for him, he is caught by the night watchers and beaten and wounded.
2. She is a Shulammite woman looking for a solution (5:9-6:3). After her husband left, the Shulammite woman realized her mistake and deep love for him. do. 1) Recalling Solomon's strengths and charms (verses 9-16), the last scene in the dream is a choir of Shulammite women to the hypothetical Jerusalem women,
“Your cheeks are like a fragrant garden of fragrant grass, and your lips are like lilies, dripping with myrrh” (verse 13). -"He said, "Hands are like golden squirrels bitten with topaz, and his body is like carved ivory overlaid with sapphire. His legs are like pillars of granite set on a base of pure gold, and his shape is like Lebanon, like cedar, as beautiful as cedar" (verses 14-15).
-“Its mouth is very droopy, and the whole thing is lovely!” (verse 16). This makes her feel that she really has a man among men as her husband. Of course, Solomon could not have been without flaws. But she is affirming her love by actively recalling Solomon's good points.
Verse 16 says, “Women of Jerusalem, this is my beloved and my friend.” To declare her conviction that the only person she loves most, and her true friend, is Solomon.
2) The Shulammite woman, who reaffirmed her love for her husband by rekindling her charm, continues to ask herself a second question through the mouth of the choir (6:1-3). Come on, where has your loved one gone! Where has your loved one turned! We will find it with you.”
Now Solomon is in his garden. 6:2 says, “My beloved has gone down to his garden, to a field of fragrant flowers, where he feeds the flock and plucks lilies!”
3. It is a confirmation of Solomon's repeated love. (6:4-13), 1) It is a confession of unchanging love for her. like Jerusalem, and your majesty is like an army with banners.” “Dirsa”, which compares her beauty to “My Love,” was the city that was later decided as the capital of the Northern Kingdom.
2) The Shulammite woman's response to Solomon's praise and confession of love continues (verses 11-13). First, as shown in the previous paragraph, after being convinced of Solomon's love, the Shulammite woman briefly confesses her love. The interpretation is that it is a recollection of what happened before he became his wife.
One spring day in her hometown, when she was a virgin, she went out to the orchard to look at the fields, and was caught by Solomon, who had just visited there. “The chariot of my precious people” refers to the chariot of the king. As a country girl, she became a queen.
Therefore, although she became a queen, she misses her virginity and free time in the countryside. In this case, the words “come back” in the next verse would be the voices of the women of their hometown who wanted to see the Shulammite woman, and it could be said to describe the state of mind of the Shulammite woman who missed her hometown.
Second, after hearing Solomon's confession of love, the Shulammite woman went out alone to the court of the royal palace and thought about various things. Obsessed with the thought of her hometown, she forgot her current identity for a moment and unwittingly embarks on a journey of her heart to her hometown.
But when I thought about Solomon's unconditional love, I realized that it was more than a longing for home. Thus, by love, a more primitive impulse than volitional determination, she “unwittingly” brought that “heart” to the royal chariot. In other words, he decided to accept the life of Solomon's wife.
Her love for her husband and her husband's love for him made her overcome her nostalgia and return to her reality. When interpreted in this way, the subsequent choir's request to “come back” describes the psychological state of the Shulammite woman, and serves as a resolution to stop longing for home and return to reality.
Among the above two interpretations, this book follows the second interpretation, but the common fact is that the Shulammite woman had difficulties in marriage due to changes in status and circumstances, and as a result, she often missed her hometown. Especially when there was a conflict in relationship with Solomon, the longing must have been amplified.
However, after confirming their love for each other, it can be seen that the firm love made her faithfully protect her real life not only as a wife but also as a queen. Nevertheless, the Shulammite woman's recollection of her hometown clearly shows that her longing is not completely resolved.
Her name appears for the first time in the entire Song of Songs. Verse 13 says, “Return and return, woman of Shulammite, return and return, that we may see thee.” With the cry of the choir, she returns to Solomon's love and reality.
Dear saints, When the Holy Spirit is extinguished, the saints are bound to miss the world. But when we think of the grace and love of our Lord's atonement for us on the cross, we have no choice but to return. Remembering hymn 317, I pray in the name of the Lord that you will return to the Lord and return all glory to God for a blessed life.