{"id":1466,"date":"2012-06-16T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2014-02-09T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T16:46:31","slug":"song-of-solomon-5-2-6-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/06\/16\/song-of-solomon-5-2-6-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Solomon 5.2-6.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%205.2-6.13&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"new\">Song of Solomon 5.2-6.13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Act IV: After the Honeymoon<\/p>\n<p>This portion presents an \u201cagony-ecstasy\u201d contrast as the couple settles into a marriage routine. There is still plenty of passion, but tempered against the reality of the difficulties of life: absence, the joy of his return, routine, unpleasant treatment from others, etc. The summary statement, however, is 6.3a, \u201cI am my lover&#8217;s and he is mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An interesting commentary is a playful custom of \u201chide and seek\u201d presented in .:2-6, where the husband knocks at the door and calls to his wife. He then unlatches the door and places a bouquet inside. Quickly, he runs to hide. As the new wife comes to the door, she panics at his absence and races out to find him. Normally, he would be ready to jump from his den to surprise her. On this night, it is likely that he had been drawn away, after all he is the king, thus leaving her unprotected when found by the watchmen. Finally, she discovers him again in 6.2-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song of Solomon 5.2-6.13 Act IV: After the Honeymoon This portion presents an \u201cagony-ecstasy\u201d contrast as the couple settles into a marriage routine. There is still plenty of passion, but tempered against the reality of the difficulties of life: absence, the joy of his return, routine, unpleasant treatment from others, etc. The summary statement, however, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/06\/16\/song-of-solomon-5-2-6-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Song of Solomon 5.2-6.13&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-song-of-solomon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}