Krummacher, Friedrich W.
These beautiful sermons where delivered during the springtime of the author’s spiritual life; of which he has written:
The key to the Song of Songs lies in personal experience. For him that is without, and who has not yet entered into the blessed sanctuary fellowship with Christ, of which this Song testifies, the sweet strains of the Shulamite are not intended. No one brings with him into the world an ear for this Song. Seek not its meaning in the way of rational reflection that is of no use. Look not for it in the school of a stagnant lifeless orthodoxy. It is the Spirit, alone, that here searches the deep things, and teaches us to read those hieroglyphics.
Author
Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher (1796-1868) was perhaps the greatest preacher on the continent of Europe in the middle years of the nineteenth century. He was the minister to several churches in Germany during the 1800s.