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the song of solomon
Solomon · c. 965 BC
Chapter the Second

I Am My Beloved's and He Is Mine

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. 
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. 
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. 
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. 
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. 
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. 
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. 
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. 
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; 
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. 
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. 
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. 
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. 
DOCTRINAL VERDICT
TIER 1: THE VOCABULARY OF MUTUAL INDWELLING

The Song of Solomon is the most misread book in the canon, and for Thread 6 it is the most underutilized. The repeated declarations of mutual possession (I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine) establish the vocabulary of the In Him union before Paul ever writes Galatians 2:20. The declaration shifts slightly with each iteration: first her claim on him, then his claim on her, then his desire directed entirely toward her. But the structure is constant: mutual possession, mutual indwelling, genuine union between two genuine persons.

Mutual Possession: Thread 6 and the In Him Union
HOW TO USE
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