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  (LOVE LIFE OF THE LORD) 1. THE LOVE LIFE
  by A.B. Simpson
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From many standpoints, the Bible looks at our spiritual life. Sometimes
it is as a life of faith, again as a life of holiness, evermore as a
life of service, deepest of all as a life of patience and victorious
suffering; but the highest and divinest view of it is a life of love.
Nor is it love in any ordinary sense, but the tenderest and most
intimate forms, and the most exquisite figures of human affection and
friendship are used to describe the unspeakable bond which links the
heart of God with the souls He calls to be His own. It is not the love
of compassion, nor even the stronger love expressed by the relationship
of fatherhood, brotherhood and even motherhood, but it is the tie, above
all others, which links two hearts in the exclusive affection which no
other can share -- the love of the bridegroom and the bride, the love
which touches all human love with its inexpressible charm, and
transfigures and glorifies the humblest lot and the hardest
circumstances into a heavenly paradise.

This is the meaning of the Song of Solomon. This is the Old Testament
climax of the series of figures that runs all the way from Eden to the
Millennial throne. The opening picture of the Bible is a love song --
two hearts, the one born out of the other, and then given back to it in
perfect unison, the central figures of earth\

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