40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Song of Solomon 5:2-16 (Episode 438)

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

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Welcome to another episode of 40 Minutes in the Old Testament. 40 Minutes in the Old Testament is a 1517 Podcast Network podcast. You can go to 1517.org slash podcast and check it all out. other podcasters are living over there. And while you're over there, make sure you check out everything else that 1517 is doing. You know, other podcasts, articles, videos, events. Speaking of events, you can sign up for the Here We Still Stand regional conference, about two-thirds of the way sold out already. So if you're going to sign up for that, you want to sign up for that pretty quick. There's a link in the show notes, or you can just, you know, go to the events page.

There's a drop-down menu there. Click on Here We Still Stand Arkansas, and then you can sign up for that. That is in April. It's going to be a good time. Chad and I are both going to be there, and while you're signing up for that, hit that donate page up. You know, you can become a contributor. If you've not ever given a 1517 and you are able to do so, we would appreciate it. It helps us keep doing what we're doing, keep us all free, and the work going out. And if you are a contributor, we appreciate it very much. You are the reason that we're able to do all this. Chad, we are in Song of Solomon, Chapter 5. You know, we had kind of a marriage going on.

You know, we had some wedding stuff, and the groom's coming, and the bride's coming. They're coming up, and they're meeting each other, and this is all great. Then they go to sleep, and, you know, you think this is a nice way to end. The marriage is over, and I guess the book's done. And much like Christianity, you know, Jesus comes and he does all this work and he says, it is finished. And you're like, well, that must be the end of the story then. I mean, the end, right?

It is finished. But not so. Then he goes away. And we're left saying, hey, when are you coming back? You coming back? That's my prelude to, I think, what we're going to be looking at here. There's a lot of different ways to interpret this, but I already let mine leak out a little bit there.

that uh yeah i think that she's thinking the same thing like well you're gonna be with me forever now right and uh yes but also no yeah this is a chapter five is a it's somewhat similar to what we saw in chapter three but it's it's not the same because in chapter three for instance she uh seeks the one that her soul loves first of all she didn't find him right so she gets out of bed She goes looking for him. She's seeking him. The watchman find her. She says, have you seen him? And then just after she sees the watchman, then she finds him, right? She holds him, won't let him go, takes him to a mother's house. Happy ending. Then you get to chapter five and you think, oh, look, it's going to be kind of a similar situation, but it's not. Not with the

watchman, not with her beloved. The whole thing ends very differently. So certainly there's a these two are to be read in tandem chapter three and chapter five but they're uh but they're different outcomes and i think yeah just different perspectives on the relationship between the the bride and the groom between the church and and christ so i think i'm gonna go ahead and read read these verses and then we can kind of work verse by verse through it so we're Spirit Song of Songs 5-2. This is the woman speaking. She says, I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound, my beloved is knocking. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night. And then she goes on. I had

put off my garments. How could I put them on? I had bathed in my feet. How could I soil them? My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me. I arose to open to my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh on the handles of the bolt. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not. I called him, but he gave no answer.

I got two more verses, seven and eight. the watchman found me as they went about in the city. They beat me. They bruised me. They took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls. And then she finishes, I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love. So yeah, I mean, it's quite the scene. I can see every time I read this, I can see it all happening i mean it's described in such detail and even at times it like pauses for dramatic effect you know like when she's going to uh to unlock the door she she gets up her hands drip with looking myrrh and then she's like reaching out to the door you can just kind of see this slow

progression happening so it's it's it's quite the quite the scene no of course needless to say there are multiple interpretations of this uh but i i like the way that you kind of entered that you introduced this uh this way of thinking about this that well so the way i think about this is whether you want to think of this as the church or or the individual believer or whatever it is yeah there's there's times of the kind of the beautiful consummation that you have in chapter three where she seeks him can't find him seeks him can't find him then all of a sudden they're together and then there's also times when like here he comes and then by the time she opens the door he's gone and when she goes looking for him what happens she's beat up basically she suffers

by the hands of the watchman on the wall and it it doesn't even end right there i mean it's going to go on from there but as far as like this section it doesn't end like oh and then my beloved found me after i got beat up and he picked me up in his arms and took me back to the house it doesn't even end that way it ends just kind of with her talking to the to the daughters of jerusalem but to kind of set the scene i mean she's first of all she's she's in bed uh she's uh i guess maybe in today's parlance we'd say something like i had already taken off my my nightgown whatever it is it says here i put off my garment so she's she's taken off her clothes and she's in bed she says i had bathed my feet how could i soil them well it's probably a dirt floor

right so she's already she's already washed her feet she's already she's taking a shower she took off her clothes she's in bed and then all of a sudden there's this like strong knocking in fact uh when uh the language is used here for for the knocking then it's like a I think that word occurs three times in the Old Testament every time it does it's like bang bang bang something like a he's trying to wake her up in other words

but there's a delay and that's when he finally just disappears when she gets to open the door yeah I mean there's maybe a maybe a simplistic takeaway which is

Jesus finds you this is how this works You do have the—I think you brought this up last time, Chad, but you do have this sort of revelation text of, behold, I stand at the door and knock kind of thing happening, right? And you might want to answer that door. You might not want to worry about your feet or what you're wearing or whatever. You might want to just go get that door open.

Because when you go out seeking for God, this is not how it works. God comes and finds you. Right? And you kind of see that spelled out here, that when he comes, you want to respond, right? And this is not, like, so I'm not, I don't know, theologically, I'm not saying that, like, Jesus knocks gently at the door of your heart, and then if you open it, he'll come in. I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that Jesus comes to you, and when you decide that you're going to go seek out God somewhere else, that you probably aren't going to find him. that He is the one who reveals Himself to you, and He's the one that comes and shows up when and where He chooses.

He is like the wind, after all, right? It blows where it wishes. If you want to go find the wind, good luck. Well, that whole, yeah, that whole misuse of Jesus standing at the door knocking as conversion takes the Revelation text and so on and so on completely out of context anyway. i mean they're already connected right yeah yeah yeah in both cases so he's he's at the church

knocking on the door the church that's already his bride saying hey behold i stand at the door knock i want to come in and eat with you he's here he's standing at the door knocking in this case he wants to come in and and be with his be with his beloved so these people are not strangers to him in other words so it's not like some unconverted soul that he's gently knocking at the door of their heart waiting for them to open it it's it's not what's going on he he wants to be with his people he comes to his people he's he's not even like tiptoeing up to the door and barely tapping it he's letting you know hey i'm here he's banging on the door open uh get out of bed i don't really care what you do or don't have on i don't care if your feet are clean or dirty i just

i just want to be with you and he's stuck out there in the rain sounds to me like he says my head is wet with two of my locks with the drops of the night hey it's it's i'm getting drenched out here and i don't want to be out here i want to be with you and she just is like delaying or coy with him almost well i'm already in bed i don't know i don't want to get my feet dirty and then it's too late so at that point yeah she's going to do a search of her own which does not go well because she's not where actually christ wanted to be with her yeah i mean uh i don't know if you've ever experienced this chad but uh it doesn't seem far-fetched to me um that there are certain you know you've been to a church that seems like it didn't want to let uh jesus in

and they're busy doing other stuff. Unfortunately, yes, I have. Yeah. Maybe he's knocking and the church is like, yeah, hey, hold on, just hold on. Hold on, we're going to get to you in a minute. We've got a few more things that are more important we need to get to first.

Yeah, and then maybe they go to open that door and he's not there anymore. And, of course, what also happens with the church sometimes is they go seek out God in a bunch of junk that he hasn't said any, a bunch of places he hasn't said that you'll find him and doing a bunch of stuff that he hasn't told you to do. And, yeah, and I think that the church does, in fact, get beat up pretty good when it goes and does that stuff.

Yeah, this is a biblical theme where there are times, there were certainly times in Israel's history where God would say something like, you know, you're going to call and I'm not going to answer you. there there are times when he he does say you know call upon me in the day of trouble and and i will be with you but there's other times when you know he'll tell a prophet don't pray for this people yeah or he'll say you're gonna call and i'm not gonna answer you and it's not like he doesn't care i mean he is he's the god who knows how to love and when he loves us sometimes that love doesn't look like the kind of love that we that we think is love or that we want

but it's the kind of love that we need and let's face it there are times when we do need a little beaten up just to kind of wake us up bring us to bring us to our senses uh and that's what's happening to her in in this case that's what happens to the church a lot of times too you know i think of the uh the famine of the word that the prophets talk about and the famine of the word is you know they for so long they didn't open the door they wouldn't listen in other words to god's prophets and so god says well i'm gonna i'm gonna have to use tough love on you and i'm gonna make sure there's a famine of the word you're gonna look so you're finally gonna open that door and you're gonna go looking for for me you're gonna look north south east and west for my word but

you're not gonna find it so he withholds his word from them for a while just like in this case you know he disappears because she delayed and then finally when a person's brought to their senses when they're brought to repentance and they actually are reunited to the lord then you realize oh well i should have opened that door to begin with and none of this would have happened yeah yep yeah so uh back to back to her description well now we're happy that it hasn't ended so you're like well that would have been we could have ended it but we were ending it here you'd be like well that's a bummer yeah that was a we got to get the full story here right like we got we got more we got much more to come she's been a watchman founder they beat her

they bruised her they they took away her veil and she turns from them to the daughters of jerusalem and says if you find my beloved then tell him that i'm sick with love she's looking for him So she speaks to these daughters of Jerusalem we've heard about more than once in the poem and says, hey, help me out here. If you find him, let him know where I am and let him know that I'm sick with love. Then the, whatever you want to call it,

the chorus, this other group, ESV has this section titled Others. They basically say, what makes him so special? That's the gist of verse nine. so you're out here uh looking for him you're telling the daughters jerusalem hey i need your help if you find him tell him i'm lovesick and then this chorus comes along and says what is your beloved more than another beloved oh most beautiful among women what is your beloved more than another beloved that you thus adjure us so what makes him so special i mean every girl has

has her guy you know or every bride has her husband so you're you make it sound as if this guy is like the best of the best so what makes him special how does he how does he stand out well she says she basically says i'm glad you asked because gives her a chance to uh to go into this long description of why he is not just another beloved why he's not just another guy but he's actually the best of the best i mean there's like no one better no one better than him so this this section is entitled in in this translation we're using the bride praises her beloved and she's going to go into all these details she's going to start like he does when he talks about her she's going to talk from the head down basically she's going to talk about his

His head, his hair, his eyes, his lips, so on and so forth. All the way down to his feet, actually. You know what's interesting? I mean, so earlier, the others, or the daughters of Jerusalem, or whoever these people are, they seemed like they understood that the groom was awesome. Almost jealous, right? Yeah, and their more question was like,

what's so great about this bride you got? What's so great about her? um that's and now she's she comes out and they're like i don't know and they because they refer to her oh most beautiful among women so it's like this weird thing where they've switched and they're like so they're fishing the sea like you're you're gorgeous and uh it was so great about this guy which is which is an interesting switch and another thing you had happened was when that happened you had the groom it's one of the like the like one of the things we got from the groom sort of his defense

because when she sort of like is believing them and saying like yeah like my skin is dark and then he goes on this thing about how she's like the best right of everything now it's like it's the the job the roles have

flipped and she's about to say back to these women or these other people oh I'll tell you straight up what's great about him like and now she's doing the same thing that he did where it's like well let me describe him to you and maybe maybe maybe i could paint a word picture for you and maybe you'll understand what's so great about him yeah and it's it's quite the quite the word picture i mean if

you if you kind of step back from the song of songs i think of this as you know like the if people are you're having a conversation with someone they're not a christian they're not part of the church but they they realize that uh you know you the way that you talk about jesus is is if he is the best thing imaginable and and they say and they're like almost curious right so tell me more tell me why you know why do you think jesus is so special what's what's so awesome about him how how is he any different than than buddha or anybody else any other kind of religious leader you know what sets him apart and then that gives the christian the chance to say oh well let me tell you and then you launch into a description of just how how incredible he is

so that's one thought another thought is we aren't going to get to this but i just want to set it up this way i was thinking just this morning and we've got we've got different descriptions in the bible of jesus but you look in the gospels and there's correct me if i'm wrong here but there's not a single physical description of him in the gospels right no i mean not at all even even our standard sort of like paintings and stuff you're like well we're pretty sure he had a beard and that's only because they pulled it out so you're like assume he had one if he didn't have that text you wouldn't even know if that was true you know like yeah yeah you would assume i mean most most first century jewish men would have had beards you know as part of the jewish culture so

yeah but the gospels really don't so i was thinking you know you have we could probably come up with more but three three texts popped into my head that are i don't i want to call them poetic descriptions maybe theological poetic descriptions of jesus but from different perspectives now the one we're about to look at is all about his beauty and you might even say his just his divine perfection because the way she's going to describe him when you get to the end i always picture like this uh greek god the statue of a greek god like this it's a very it's a very statuesque description of him here in song of songs but if you go from here to isaiah 53 where you have once more somewhat of a description of

him it's a it's a very different description it's not his beauty but it's his uh his suffering right because there he's a he's a sufferer he's he's a sacrificial victim so you got isaiah 53's focus you got songs focus and then you skip ahead to revelation 1 where you actually do have somewhat of a description of him so see this is revelation 112 and following where he's standing among the seven golden lampstands and so he's clothed with the long robe golden sash around his chest the hairs of his head are white like wool like snow his eyes are a flame of fire his feet burnished bronze refined in a furnace he's got the right hand with the seven stars and out of his mouth comes the sharp two-edged sword his face was like the sun shining in its full strength

well that's a physical description but it's different than what we have in the song of songs because here it's more focused upon his his priestly status his uh his glorified son of god status it's standing at the right hand of the father so all three of these descriptions Isaiah 53, Song of Songs 5, and then Revelation 1, they're describing Jesus, but in such a way that you're not supposed to walk away with this being able now to paint a portrait, in other words. These aren't just literal physical descriptions, but they're all designed in different ways to accent who he is and what he accomplishes for us. Yeah, so this is interesting. So you think about these two things in tandem, right?

Think about Isaiah 53, 2, where Isaiah says, there is nothing in his appearance to make us desire him. Then go to Song of Songs 5, 9. What is your beloved more than any other beloved? what is your beloved more than any other beloved that you should thus adjure us right like so it makes it makes sense that uh yeah if you just saw jesus people isaiah seems to think that like if you saw him in the flesh that people would be like i don't get it he looks just like an average israelite to me right yeah like what's so great about this right and uh and it seems that this

is the this is what these others are saying as well like okay like and both and we saw them say the opposite thing earlier and like so both of these things are true where like where jesus is still this jesus is both undesirable and yet the most desirable thing in the world right like in on all and in all the universe i mean this is this is how it works and what's cool about it too is that this applies to to us because what i like about the sort of you know the the bride not feeling like she's worth anything and the groom defending her and then the people saying hey your groom's not really i think you might you know have beer goggles on i don't know what's going on but like i don't think he's as good as you think he is is that both of these things are

true that like if you it's easy for us to say like if someone's like what's so great about jesus like we've probably got a lot to say. And it is biblically correct to say that Jesus is lovely, that he's beautiful. And here we're talking about this in the sense that he's perfect. We're not talking about his physical appearance and stuff, but that he is altogether perfect. And so we would say, well, this is what's so great about Jesus.

He's everything. But what's also true is that the world might look at the church and say, what's so great about that? and he'll say it's perfect. And so this works both ways, that we proclaim the loveliness of Christ to the world and Christ will come to the defense of his bride and be like, what are you talking about?

This is the most beautiful thing that's ever been. I think about that a lot because I think we, even within the church, we tend to focus upon the ugly aspects of life in the church. Yeah. And I'm not downplaying that whatsoever. Uh, but, uh, when Christ talks about his church, he speaks about her as if she is just amazingly dropped dead, gorgeous and perfect.

So you gotta, you gotta hold both these truths in together. Yeah. I mean, certainly the church is comprised of sinners, so you're going to have a lot of ugliness there, but when Christ comes along and he just can't stop talking about how gorgeous the church is because she's resplendent in the beauty that he's given, given to her. Yeah. so uh yeah he's he's gonna or she's gonna answer the question by starting with this this is uh verse 10 so they ask her what makes him so special and she says my beloved is radiant

and ruddy distinguished among 10 000 so that's the way she starts out radiant could be translated it's something like uh dazzling or shimmering something like that and then uh this word for ruddy it's not it's not exactly the same word that you used to describe david when we're given that description of him but it's the same root basically it's same same root we get edom from which means red so david described as one of uh either a ruddy complexion or red hair that's that's david but there's this you know this uh red quality uh maybe some people even take like a bronze like look but either way he's he's shining he's radiant he's ruddy and ruddy is always i mean always but when used as a description of a person it's not negative a lot of times like

ruddy and handsome go hand in hand right yes yeah yeah yeah and he's uh distinguished among 10 000 and so as far as like we in english for instance we have uh higher words higher single words like million or billion or whatever but in hebrew this is the uh this is the largest number that you could describe with a single word is 10 000 so if we were to translate this into like and like a you know a paraphrase we would say he is one in a million more or less so he's using the biggest word that she can think of to describe him. So he's distinguished among 10,000.

One in a million, man. We know this language. One in a million. Someone asks me about your wife, you're like, yeah, she's one in a million. Line up a million people, I'll be able to pick her out. Yeah, and that's what it's communicated here. Using the biggest number that she can use.

His head, so she can work his way. So that's kind of a general description, right? Radiant, ruddy, distinguished among 10,000. Then she's going to go from his head downward so his head is the his finest gold his locks are wavy black as a raven so i was thinking about this head of finest gold that's that's actually in daniel too you know the statue the head's made of gold maybe there's something to do with a golden head it's a way of describing that which is the best of course gold is the most precious jewel precious metal so it makes sense

that she's going to say that it's it's it's associated with royalty i mean she is talking i mean so you're talking about this guy and who also happens to be the king of kings you know so yeah his head his head's gold yeah and he's not he's not gray-haired or nor is he bald right he's he's black as a raven he's got a he got a full head of hair so you have this this idea of not only radiant and ruddy, but, you know, youthful. All of those qualities that we associate with the prime of life, as we might say. So that's his head, that's his hair.

What about his eyes? Well, I need my wife to rule this one out on me. Like, I mean, I don't even know if I would, I don't know what I would do if she told me this about my eyes. Verse 12? Oh, yeah. You'd probably just fire whatever she wanted, right? Yeah.

He came up and said, Dan, your eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk sitting beside a full pool. Now, see, the second part that really gets me. So, like, hey, your eyes are like doves beside streams of water. You're like, oh, that's just, you know, the Old Testament does that. Yeah. It's a nice image. Yeah. They got some big old dove eyes, I guess.

You know, that's nice. but then no no no no but they look they're like these doves are like bathed in milk all right we're not done yet oh so do i got milky eyes what are we talking about here exactly yeah yeah if i say somebody's milky eyes typically we think oh can't see right yeah yeah i think of our little little mini dachshund we had for years little justice when he's about 15 years old you look at his poor eyes and they're like milky right yeah because he couldn't see he lost his vision but this is the positive image so some people say this is like the whites of your eyes and the doves or you know your pupils or whatever maybe i mean so the idea of being bathed in milk or bathed in

wine it just it's just it's a it's an old testament image of just kind of this lavish life more or less so uh got the eyes got the hair uh looking good looking good his cheeks are uh like beds of spices mounds of sweet smelling herbs and and the reason is he uses the same beard butter that i use that's what's going on there that's why his cheeks smell as as good as they do i do i do wonder if uh maybe this is a description of his beard I mean, most likely he would have had a beer, that's what Israelites always had so maybe he knows the right kind of

spices to put in that facial hair but that's how his cheeks are, beds of spices and mounds of sweet smelling herbs he smells good, we would say and while we're talking about the face, his lips are lilies, dripping

liquid myrrh, we got a lot of liquid myrrh going on in this song yeah so So, well, we got the head, we got the face, we got the lips, but what about the rest of his body? We're going to switch now to kind of precious stones and jewels and that kind of language as she works her way downward.

Starting with his, well, ESV has it translated as arms, which is fine. The Hebrew there is the word for hand. but and hand can mean a lot of different things it can mean a hand it can also

by extension refer to the entire arm which is probably what's intended here but his arms are rods of gold did your wife ever say

that about you dude? oh yeah she calls me old golden rod take that shirt off or wear that t-shirt and yeah

arms are rods of gold set with jewels yeah yeah and uh his she she knows she she says like man your arms are like bedazzled gold bars it's like a it's like a gold bar that got bedazzled all the all the time yeah yeah i did notice that most of the images that are going to be used uh in the next couple of verses here are like uh hardened things which i mean fits with male imagery yeah tough yeah he's a hard guy he's

manly man. He's muscular. All those sorts of images fit with the male physique. So we got golden rod arms bejeweled. You don't want to hear that your arms

are like doves bathed in milk. I mean, that's not what you want to hear. You don't want to hear that. It's not a compliment a guy wants to receive. He wants to know he's got arms like rods of gold. and again esv has his body is is polished ivory i think the there's a few translations like king james which translate this literally his stomach i always think of abs here so this isn't the word

for body it really is the area kind of between your upper thighs and below your chest so yeah you could say stomach or belly or whatever but it so his belly his abs we might say if we use a kind of modern english is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires so i don't know does he have a six-pack is what we're talking about here you know he's look looking good when he has his shirt off let's put it that way his legs are alabaster columns set on bases of gold and then his appearance is like Lebanon and we know

we know if we mention Lebanon what's coming up some cedars got some cedars yep his appearance is like Lebanon choice as not the oaks not the pines nothing but of course the cedars

and then you know worked our way all the way down to his feet which are compared here to gold so he's got a we would i guess you know i just just realized this head to toe he's golden right he's got that golden head of gold yeah golden shoes golden golden hat you know beat set on bases of gold i mean he's he's statuesque here he really is this kind of this divine figure but having done all this uh worked away from head to toe now we're going to go back to his mouth

and that's the way this verse ends, this section ends. His mouth is most sweet. I learned something this morning. I learned that the word that you hear from most sweet, which is a plural form, the singular form is momtok, and that is the modern Hebrew word for candy. How about that? So he's got candied lips, we might say in the modern Hebrew translation. His mouth is like candy it is it is most sweet and if you didn't realize this already he is all together desirable and having said that she refers back to the people that ask her this question and says so you asked me what makes him special well i've just described what makes him special and she ends by saying this so this guy this is my beloved and this is my friend oh daughters of jerusalem

quite a guy yeah and uh yeah there's there's nothing in here uh whatsoever that insinuates there's anything even remotely imperfect about him everything is just unimaginably almost almost indescribably perfect so he's one in a million from head to toe he is he is perfect and that's i mean i can't think of a of a better way for the the church the bride of christ to talk about who jesus is i mean he is he's he's he's perfect he's the isaiah 53 where some people might look at him and say what's desirable about that uh the church comes along and says oh i'm glad you asked well Let me begin to tell you how perfect He is. And you could make a whole series of sermons

just out of these few verses, especially if you wanted to break it down. Oh, let me tell you what makes His arms so special, how they hung upon the cross. Let me tell you what makes His feet so beautiful because they're always bringing good news. And what makes His eyes so lovely is because when He looks at people,

he looks at them with mercy and compassion and awe you just go on and on with the various parts of who his body is got that sweet gospel coming out of his mouth sweet gospel coming out of his mouth yes yeah

every aspect of who he is in other words is something which can be preached on you know one of the things I like about this too I do like the here's this description it's very intense So that's why he's special, ladies.

Now I think you understand. And then she does like, yeah, this is my beloved. But then she does something brand new and says, this is my friend, which is also wildly biblical. Give me this impression that Jesus is just everything. So he's like your beloved. He's your groom. He's your brother.

And what else is he? well he's your lord he's also your friend which of course jesus says that this is exactly who he is yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna call you i'm gonna call you my friend and then of course one of the best insults ever given to jesus because it's so beautifully true friend of sinners man you got guy friend of sinners yeah it's a it's always perfect when people think that they're insulting you and their insult turns out they one of the best compliments that you could you could ever receive those are like those are the those are the best best compliments that you can receive uh so he's a friend of sinners yeah and he's the he's our brother he is our king he's our lord he's

our bridegroom he's he's everything and uh she's just uh given us a uh unforgettable description of all the various parts of who he is and so rightly so she says well that's here's your answer this is my beloved and this is my friend or daughters of jerusalem yeah that's that's great that takes us through yeah yeah that takes us through chapter chapter five um now next next time they're gonna ask another question so they they said well this makes him so special next time they're gonna say where's he at we should be able to find this guy yeah he'd stand out where's your where's where's he gone and we'll see we'll see her answer to that and then i mean he's she has described him now he's going to turn around he's going to describe her

so we'll have that coming up next episode all right man sounds good i'll see you then see you then Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh