Body, Body, Bride

The Bridegroom of the Song celebrates the physical beauty of his Bride.  For most of church history, this was seen as a human type of Yahweh’s love for Israel and Christ’s for the church.

Christ too has a bride, who is one-flesh with Him, the bride who is His body.  And the New Testament includes some Pauline blasons on the beauty of the bride-body (Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12).  For Jesus too admires His Bride, delights in her, desires her for her beauty, since He finds her, as Solomon did, without blemish (Song of Songs 4:7).