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The Song of Songs A Mystical Exposition

Solomon’s Song of Songs , or Canticle of Canticles , in the Old Testament is a complete—and sometimes scandalous—enigma to most people. But it will not be so after one has read Fr. Juan Arintero’s sublime and penetrating exposition. In this volume will be found a most beautiful and truly Catholic explanation of that mysterious book of the Bible—a book wondrously rich in spiritual doctrine and suffused with holiness. Written by an eminent spiritual master whose cause for beatification has already been introduced and whose writings were all approved in 1972, The Song of Songs by Fr. Juan Arintero (1860–1928) presents the traditional Catholic interpretation of the biblical Song of Songs as an extended metaphor, in which the hidden spiritual meaning is, in fact, the true, primary, and literal sense. Though employing images taken from sensory love, this Old Testament book actually speaks only of chaste, spiritual, and divine love—of sublime realities beyond the reach of profane eyes and hearts full of carnal desire. Here it is supremely true that “the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life” (2 Cor. 3:6). Each chapter of Fr. Arintero’s book begins with a summary of a chapter of the b

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