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For a good fifteen centuries or more, theologians have considered that the Biblical book of the Song of Solomon is an allegory of the love between Christ and the Church.  I find this a somewhat absurd interpretation, created by emotionally desperate men, in that the Song nowhere mentions either Christ or His Church.

I suggest, herein, a new interpretation for the book, and its presence in the Christian canon of the Old Testament.  I believe that Mary Magdalene enjoyed a very special, very chaste, friendship with Jesus, and I have described in several other poems.  I believe the Song is a prophecy of what Mary felt about that relationship, a canonical way (so to speak) for her to organize her thoughts and feelings about it.

The title is taken from 2 Peter 1:19.

The greetings sections of Paul's Letters, Romans through 2nd Thessalonians, are a fascinating catalog of the Christian's many spiritual privileges and blessings.  I have only just begun to study these sections; and my only regret is that I did not begin to do so thirteen years ago, when I first became a Christian. I recommend these sections to any Christian in need of assurance or of cheerfulness.