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Puritan Board Freshman
Question on Song of Solomon 1:5-6:
5 I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. 6 Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!
"Dark" (He,: she-horah, adj. she-hor, "black") is not a reference to skin pigmentation (genetics), but to skin condition (sunburnt, aged).
Agree, disagree? Why?
Thx.
5 I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. 6 Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!
"Dark" (He,: she-horah, adj. she-hor, "black") is not a reference to skin pigmentation (genetics), but to skin condition (sunburnt, aged).
Agree, disagree? Why?
Thx.