Did King Solomon understand true love?
Capital from the Song of Solomon in Winchester Cathedral. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) " Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." ( Song of Solomon 8:7 ) The Song of Solomon , as part of God 's inspired Word, is much more than an ancient erotic poem, as some have interpreted it. Solomon was given great wisdom by God, so that he "spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five" ( 1 Kings 4:32 ). Of these latter, he apparently considered this to be his masterpiece, his "song of songs" ( Song 1:1 ). It can best be understood as a pure love song describing the courtship and marriage of Solomon and his first bride, long before he later married "many strange |that is, 'foreign'| women" ( 1 Kings 11:1 ), who "turned away his heart after other gods" ( 1 Kings 11:4 ). Another interpretation...