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I agree with Ian and others that the author's (Solomon's) intention when writing it was not to paint a portrait of Christ and the Church. The evidence seems to point to the position of it being a collection of love poems, directly intended by the author to be just that.
However, I also agree that God inspired it as Scripture to definitely paint a portrait of Christ and the Church (in addition to the direct benefit it has as a human marital account). Keep in mind that God inspires Scripture, but does not always use the author's cognitive intentions [i:4dd102b5ac]directly[/i:4dd102b5ac] to do such. Often the inspiration is indirect, wherein the authors writing perfectly expresses God's truth, yet incidentally. For instance, when Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes, he was far from God. Yet God inspired Solomon's writing of it to reflect perfect truth. I believe that Song of Songs is largely the same situation.
In Christ,
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