The lovers in the Song are portrayed as making love in a garden, which has links to both Eden and the temple. To quote Jenson again: The Song’s poesy of sheer bodily delight, invoked in order to speak of the Lord and his people joined passionately in the temple, simultaneously evokes human love as it would be, were we lovers in Eden or in the garden the temple depicted: it would be the joyous image of God’s love for Israel.15
