Chapter Sixteen: Fan the Fire of Lifelong Love

[1] Tremper Longman III, Song of Songs, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001), 209.

[2] John Wesley, “Commentary on Song of Solomon 8,” John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/wesleys-explanatory-notes/song-of-solomon/song-of-solomon-8.html.

[3] G. Lloyd Carr, The Song of Solomon: An Introduction and Commentary, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1984), 169.

[4] J. Swanson, Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Hebrew Old Testament, electronic ed. (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1977), s.v. “resheph.” See Psalm 78:48.

[5] Swanson, s.v. “resheph.”

[6] Tom Gledhill, The Message of the Song of Songs (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1994), 237.

[7] Longman, 221.

[8] Joseph C. Dillow, Solomon on Sex (Nashville: Nelson, 1977), 155.

[9] Berta Delgado, “Author’s Latest Novel Imagines a World That Outlaws Religion,” Dallas Morning News, October 15, 2003.

[10] Jody and Linda Dillow attended the memorial service for Dr. Bill Bright in Fort Collins, Colorado, and heard this said.

[11] We have searched for the author of this poem and are unable to find it, but we applaud whoever wrote it!