“Voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes!” says the excited bride in the Song of Songs 2:8.
As the older commentators noted, this is redemptive history in a nutshell: First the voice, then the Lover in flesh. So long as the prophets speak, Israel knows that the Lover is coming, just over the hill, leaping on the mountains, ready to draw near to His beloved.
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