Hey, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that if you have little ones around that do not know about the birds and the bees yet, maybe listen to this episode with some headphones on because we're talking about song of songs. Wanted to give you that heads up. Let's dive in.

It's interesting that actually when we enter into a shameless, you know, in a way, like a relationship without shame, that we actually can kind of bring Eden into our bedrooms as married couples.

Also, I also want to say, or by protecting your virginity as these daughters of Jerusalem.

Like being in the garden and not taking the fruit or taking the fruit at its proper time

are both ways to be wise in the garden.

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Spoken gospel is a ministry that's dedicated to speaking the gospel out of every corner of

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In Luke 24, Jesus told his disciples that every part of the Bible is about him.

In each episode, hosts David and Seth work through a passage of Scripture to see how it's all about Jesus and his good news.

Let's jump in. Hey, everyone and welcome to the spoken gospel podcast. My name is Seth, and we are talking about the Song of Solomon. David, how are you

feeling about the second episode? Well, I'm feeling very good about it because we got through

some of the bigger themes that the book addresses in the last episode. I think I was surprised.

I kind of expected love poetry. Yep. But what I was surprised. I kind of expected love poetry.

Yep.

But what I was surprised by was the way that you talked about poems about a woman losing

her virginity in a wise way.

Yeah.

And we talked for a long time about how the marriage night should be a night attended to by wisdom because the fate of the world is at stake.

And so if you want to listen to that conversation, you should go listen to our previous conversation.

But building off of that, I actually still don't know anything about the book itself.

We have not gotten into the book yet. I know it's a collection of poems about a woman losing her virginity in the tradition of the wisdom literature. Yeah. How does the Song of Solomon actually work? Yeah. And so I think the one thing to keep at the front of our mind from our last conversation is that you have this woman who has kept

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