“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm.” Solomon’s Song of Songs 8:5
Get this idea right and you will behold one of the most beautiful idea’s ever, next to the thought of Jesus Christ! Can you behold two hearts that are the same. Like minded. Having the same love, but different roles. Behold each one doing their role. The heart of the husband wisely choosing how to love his/His Bride and the bride out of love submit her will to his. For she says “I am his and his desire is for me” Song 7:10 By this point the curse has been reversed. Enmity between her seed and Satan’s is not manifesting itself.
Not that it is possible here on earth, but I firmly believe we are to see the couple as one and sinless! Not that they won’t sin but that their hearts are like that of Adam’s and Eve’s before the fall. Sinless yet mutable. Sinless yet able to sin. There is a pure and holy love dwelling in each of them. Its not possible for the Love of God to be tainted.
Green meadows are calm and beautiful. Twin fawns browsing among the lilies is lovely. A woman’s face is beautiful. A woman whole body is beautiful, yet her holy soul is the true beauty and all other natural beauties are only a reflection of the moral beauty of a woman. Every external natural beauty is a reflection or extension of God’s Beauty. God’s beauty is His Holiness which consists in His love to Himself or His idea of Himself which is His Son.
Behold God’s Son and Behold a perfect manifestation of God’s Beauty. In simple terms when we know Jesus is God’s Son and behold Him there sinless by His obedience to the Father. Obedience to the Father. The Father said, “Go and die for Your bride.” The Son is obeying the Father at the cross. This act of obedience is most beautiful. Since Jesus Christ, God’s Son is infinitely morally beautiful we see the manifestation of that moral beauty in an act of obedience.
This act of obedience is a key ingredient to any being or union that is morally beautiful.
I say union because in a marriage their is a union of hearts and bodies. The two are one. This union of hearts when understood in the mind is the greatest beauty on earth!
There is the will of the husband/Husband and the will of the Bride. They are the same. His will and hers are one and the same essence or faculty. The will is a faculty of the heart. “She says set me as a seal upon your heart.”
The heart consists of her mind, will and emotions. When you press his heart, or mind, will and emotions upon her you get a likeness. Just like you would get a likeness of an image on a wax seal when pressing something upon it very close. We were made in the image of God. That image is in the soul. The soul or heart has faculties. Those faculties are the mind where truth and knoledge is. The will which is our inclinations and desires and then you have the emotions of our soul like love, hate, delight, joy, sorrow, grief etc. So they were one in the heart which consists of the mind, will and emotions. The common phrase is “soul mates”.
The mind
Her knowledge of God and her knowledge of her husband and her knowledge of herself in her mind is the same as his knowledge of God, himself and her in his mind. They are like minded otherwise their is no sweet harmony or peace in the relationship for disunion of hearts causes enmity and strive. Which is why they not only share the same mind but the same love.
The will
Both their souls relish the supreme excellency of the Divine Nature (Holiness) which inclines their wills toward God. Remember they must be one in their wills. Both having the same will or there is no oneness nor beauty in the union.
Both have love to God in their wills because they both have an unquenchable love in their hearts. Song 8:6-7 The primary inclination of their wills is to please God. He wants to please God and she wants to please God. Their wills are the same in their mutual desire to please God in the relationship. Imagine the ugliness and deformity of a union between one person who wanted to please God and another who could care less. How can two walk together unless they be in agreement? Their wills must agree on the primary goal of the relationship. Love. Love to God, love to each other, love to neighbor, love to enemies.
Her will needed to submit for peace and harmony in the relationship. Her will submitting is the moral beauty beheld in the later portion of the verse. “Set me as a seal upon your heart as a seal upon your arm.” She says she is like his arm in the sense that he wills it the arm does it. I mean who’s arm doesn’t quickly and joyfully follow the will of the heart. We think it our arm does it. They function in sweet harmony unless their is some neurological issue like Parkinson’s or MS etc.
The idea may be better understood by a dance. Image a couple dancing in perfect lockstep. Him leading and her submitting her will to his flawless leadership and what you get is a beautiful dance! When two hearts become one it is more beautiful than any other dance on earth!
The primary inclination of their wills is the same and they both have different roles. Her role is to submit her will to his and she learns to do so. “My beloved is mine and I am his.” Song 2:16, “I am his and he is mine” 6:3 and “I am his and his desire is for me” 7:10. By the end of the Song the curse is reversed and the two are together, close and one. In order for the couple to be heart to heart she had to learn to give her will completely over to him as she never doubts his love. This is seen in her words “I am his and his desire is for me.” 7:10 But it took 7 chapter for her to learn so and allow her unmeasurably wise husband to shepherd her heart so that the two could be one.
Their emotions
Okay so we have the same mind, same will and same emotions. Love is the emotion that is felt and defined as
The souls relish of the supreme excellency of the Divine nature inclining the heart toward God as its chief good.
They share the same love which is an affection of the heart. They are heart to heart, for she says, “Set me as a seal upon your heart.” She is like his heart. What she is like and the image a seal would make if his heart where impressed upon the clay are the same. They are one. Part of our idea of being one is “likeness”. The image of God upon their hearts needs to be the same. They both have the same love. They both have the same holy emotion.
God is Love.
Analogy, similarities. Reflection. Likeness.
Moral beauty is a reflection of natural beauty. There are many single natural beauties in the face of the Bride. Song 4:1-4 mention the beauty of her hair, teeth, temples, lips and breasts. Now if you were to look at the beauty of her teeth that consisted in equal proportions, proper function and degree of delight in beholding you would see a reflection of the beauty of oneness, love and union in the words,
“set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm.” Natural and moral beauty of the heart is seen in this verse. Natural beauty only is seen in her teeth. Yet the natural beauty has similarities with the moral that make the natural beauty a reflection of the moral.
“How beautiful you are, my darling!
Oh, how beautiful!
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn,
coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin;
and not one of them is alone.” Song 4:1,3
Physical cleanliness is hear much like moral cleanliness or holiness. For her teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. They would not be beautiful if they were dirty. A dirty heart would have wrong ideas of God. Remember in our heart to heart analogy both the husband and wife must have the same right idea of God. A wrong idea of God is an lie and not God or an idol of the heart. In order for the most beautiful union their hearts must be holy and pure having the right idea of God in the mind, holy and clean inclinations to Him in the will and a pure sincere love as the beautiful emotion of the heart. “Set me as a seal upon your heart.”
“Each has its twin” here we have likeness. Which here the physical likeness is a reflection of the moral likeness within the Trinity and marriage.
Okay you may think Im weird but here you have it anyway. The Father is like the Son. The top tooth is like the bottom. Twins. The Father loves the Son the Son loves the Father. The equal proportions and relations between the Father and the Son are the same. Their is also equal proportions and relations between the top tooth and the bottom one. They are the same. The Son is the image of the invisible God. Each tooth has the same nature. Both are bone. Truth and Love in his heart and truth and love in hers. Their two hearts must be of the same bone of his bone in order for the two to be one. Their hearts in order to be one must be of the same nature of Love like twin teeth both have the same nature, which is bone. Out of man’s rib came woman. Same nature different roles. A beauty of the Trinity is that they all have the same nature but different roles. All working in harmony to manifest the Glory of God!!
The Father is love in Prime. The Son is the image of Love and Love the Holy Spirit is shared between the two.
Her external beauty is more than any other woman and “How beautiful” she is. Just so you don’t miss it he says it again and then goes on to describe various private natural beauties of his wife that contribute the the general beauty of her face that he is beholding and delighted with. “How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your teeth…”
Solomon knows the beauty of God and see’s it manifested in the various beautiful features of his wife. God’s invisible attributes are clearly seen by what has been made and God is the “master craftsman” Song 7:1 that not only made her attractive thighs but also her beautiful face that had beautiful teeth.
Notice also that her teeth would function best when in equal proportions and not one missing. When the bride says, “Set me as a seal upon your arm” the physical idea of proper function of symmetrical teeth is a physical reflection of proper function in marriage when the husband and wife are heart to heart, having the same mind like having the same upper and lower matching tooth described as a twin. Since her will and his were the same then the marriage functions in happiness and harmony and so would the function of teeth be happy and harmonious when in equal proportions and “not one of them missing”. Imagine a marriage with nothing missing! That has got to be one of the greatest beauties on earth!!
What Im getting at and hope I have explained it in some sensical way is that when you see the beauty of the oneness in the words,
“Set me as a seal upon your heart as a seal upon your arm.” then you see the Beauty of the Trinity and are transformed, holier and happier.
Application
Know who he/He is.
Know what He is like.
Know her beauty and see it as a reflection or type of his/His.
Behold the fruits of the union. Obedience. Holiness. Happiness. A stricter union.
Memorize and obey Scripture to have more of the mind and likeness of Jesus Christ upon your heart in order to a holier and happier relationship with you Heavenly Bridegroom.
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