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Song of Songs – Return, Return, O
Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!
Song of Solomon 6:13
Pastor’s Opening
THE translation into the word “Shulamite” is unhappy: it is unmusical, and misses the meaning. The Hebrew word is a feminine of “Solomon.” “Solomon” may stand for the bridegroom’s name, and then the well-beloved bride takes her husband’s name in a feminine form of it, which is Shulamith, Salome, or perhaps better “Solyma.” The King has named his name upon her, and as Caius has his Caiia, so Solomon has his Solyma. He is the Prince of Peace, and she is the Daughter of Peace.
Scripture Citation and Verse(s)
Song of Solomon 6:13
“Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.”
Main Theme(s)
I. Let us listen for a minute or two, but only with our ears, not with our hearts, to THE LOWER VOICES.
II. Now we turn to listen, not with our ears only, but with our hearts too, to the call of THE HIGHER VOICES which cry, “Return, return.”
