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The Song of Solomon is treated as literature, nothing more or in any way different from what it appears to be at first sight; there is no meaning read into it, neither is it made to favor any commentator's views, however scholarly he may be.
The fragmentary condition of the text called for connective tissue; the heroine was evidently one person, but the different attitudes and the conflicting proposals of the male characters demanded that persons to whom a classification of the speeches would make it possible to assign that which was proper to them, should be discovered.
The translator claims the original discovery of the eunuch or Chamberlain; the father of the heroine has never hitherto been brought to light; and the structure as well as the purpose of the last chapter is now for the first time brought into relation ship with the rest of the book. Indeed, the destructive school of critics have in some instances proposed the taking of it away from the book, leaving this detached portion to shift for itself, thinking that it is one of the earliest of the pious frauds in which an obscure writer endeavors to attach his production to a famous one, and so obtain an unacknowledged immortality.
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