RE: Gallup Again - The Bible
July 10, 2022 at 4:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2022 at 5:00 am by Belacqua.)
From the Wikipedia entry on the Song of Songs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_So...ristianity
emphasis added
Christian allegorical interpretation of this book began with Origen, who lived c. 185 – c. 253. That is, a little while before Woolston.
Jews accepted the book into their canon based on allegorical readings circa 2nd century.
Quote:The literal subject of the Song of Songs is love and sexual longing between a man and a woman, and it has little (or nothing) to say about the relationship of God and man; in order to find such a meaning it was necessary to resort to allegory, treating the love that the Song celebrates as an analogy for the love between God and Church.[6] The Christian church's interpretation of the Song as evidence of God's love for his people, both collectively and individually, began with Origen. Over the centuries the emphases of interpretation shifted, first reading the Song as a depiction of the love between Christ and Church, the 11th century adding a moral element, and the 12th century understanding of the Bride as the Virgin Mary, with each new reading absorbing rather than simply replacing earlier ones, so that the commentary became ever more complex.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_So...ristianity
emphasis added
Christian allegorical interpretation of this book began with Origen, who lived c. 185 – c. 253. That is, a little while before Woolston.
Jews accepted the book into their canon based on allegorical readings circa 2nd century.
