Mary & the Song of Songs

[Ripheus27]

Daughters of Jerusalem, go out

and look upon King Solomon

In the crown with which his mother has crowned him

on the day of his marriage,

on the day of the joy of his heart. (Song of Songs 3:10-11)


The "marriage" of Christ and the Church is believed to be represented in the Song of Songs. So King Solomon here is a type of Christ the King. Does this passage suggest that Mary "crowned" Jesus in some way "on the day of the joy of his heart"? I would think that this day would be that of the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Ascension, or Pentecost. If Pentecost, maybe the image of the crown fits to the circle of fires, which in turn fits Mary to the woman with the crown of twelve stars in the Book of Revelation, perhaps.

Is this an interpretation that has been suggested by Mariologists before?

 

[icxn]

Most commentators understood the day of his marriage (Christ's that is), the day of the Crucifixion, in which case the crown refers to the crown of thorns and his mother to be the Jews or if you prefer, the OT Church.

In the Book of Revelation it is possible to interpret the woman as the Church, Mary and each individual believer*. Evidently, for each case the context is interpreted differently.


* LXX Isaiah 26:

17 And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to thy beloved. 18 We have conceived, O Lord, because of thy fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of thy salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth: we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.​