Does anyone know of any exegesis of the Song of Songs that puts the Christian individual, the reader, as the masculine part.
The always make humanity, Israel, the Church (us), as the bride, and God, Christ etc as the bridegroom. We're out in a passive position where we just have to be spotless and beautiful for Christ's love.
But insofar as we are Christians we are Christ-like and share in his life.
So I'm looking for something which uses a kind of chivalric love and desire as the motivator to become Christ-like. With the bride as the reward of the new life, paradise returned etc. Where we have to prove our love to the feminine by a life of noble self sacrifice. Active not passive.
I'd rather imagine myself as the man than the bride.

>>24526499 (OP)
you're filtering yourself

>>24526516
How?

>>24526499 (OP)
Bump

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>>24526527
>uhh I'm like a Christian but I want the Bible to be phrased differently for muh feelings
Come on now.

>>24529255
No. There's a huge variety of interpretations. And the scriptures are supposed to be multivalent. I think the lack of what I'm talking about specifically here is just the consequence of Augustine's boner.
But basically what I'm thinking is this. You can focus on what Christ does for you, he describes his church as the bride and him the bridegroom. But we can also focus in Christ's work, being like him. 'Heirs in Christ's work and reward'.
The Bible is full of love story's. Jacob working seven years for Rachel comes to mind.
So I was curious about the song of songs and if any medievals made a chivalry kind of interpretation. I think it works well.

>>24530353
It even works with the song of songs with the maid of Salom being outcast by her brothers, made to toil in the sun. It's like the fallen world. But Solomon prepares and guards the garden for them. Which is like labouring for the fallen world. Ministering to it.