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Love as a 'flame of Yah'

The Song calls love a blazing fire, a flame of Yah, perhaps the only allusion to God's name in the book.

Love touched by the divine.

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Many waters cannot quench it; no flood can sweep it away.

Bible reference: Song of Songs 8:6–7

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 443

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