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Song of Songs 1:3

The New Testament’s use of Song of Songs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

2 Cor 2:14-17 ?

'Your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out, therefore the maidens love you' offers the erotic-devotional register of a fragrant, beloved name. Paul's aroma of Christ that draws (or repels) may glance at this beloved-name fragrance. Low: evocative but lacks verbal contact and the sacrificial frame dominates.

Low confidence
Luke 7:36-50 ?

The fragrant ointment poured out and the love-language of the anointing scene faintly evoke the perfumed devotion of the Song, a possible figural overtone in early Christian reading of the woman's love. Faint and contested, offered for maximal coverage.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Song of Songs 1
Song of Songs 1:12 2