Fiery Love (Consuming Fire, part 5)

"Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." Song of Solomon 8:6

Not to be too scholarly, but in Notes on the Bible, Albert Barnes says regarding this verse:

"The Key-note of the poem.  It forms the Old Testament counterpart to Paul's panegyric 1 Corinthians 13:1-13...

a.  Love is here regarded as an universal power, an elemental principle of all true being, alone able to cope with the two eternal foes of God and man, Death and his kingdom.  "For strong as death is love, Tenacious as Sheol is jealousy."  "Jealousy" is here another term for "love," expressing the inexorable force and ardor of this affection, which can neither yield nor share possession of its object, and is identified in the mind of the sacred writer with divine or true life.

b. He goes on to describe it as an all-pervading Fire, kindled by the Eternal One, and partaking of His essence: "its brands are brands of fire, A lightning-flash from Jah."

To put it simply... Love is a consuming fire ignited in God's heart.