Supreme status

In ancient, classical Hebrew there is an expression that indicates something has the highest value.  That expression was used in naming a book of poetry found in the Jewish collection of sacred writings.  The book contains the story of two young people who fall deeply in love and live to show this love in a number of different ways.  All kinds of metaphors are sprinkled in the lines of this beautiful love poem.  Thus, it is called the song (because it was at one time thought to have been sung to music) above all other love songs...  The expression is: Song of songs.

In Koine Greek, an  expression exists that shows the supreme place something has in one's view of status for things in life.  That expression was used in a very simple, but beautifully symbolic, book of a deity who came to live among a people before rising to his position of importance in presiding over them.  The Roman rulers of the time used the title translated lord.  The Greek rulers from times past used the title translated king.  So, when this new group of people wanted to say that their deity presided over them in a way superior to the current Roman rulers or superior to the glorious rulers of their native past, they called him confidently: Lord of lords, their king of kings.

 In modern English, someone can use a particular expression to signal that a thought is so meaningful, so special and superior that other thoughts pale by comparison.  That expression is said to originate in the heart.  So, to let another person know of the special importance (s)he holds in someone's heart, one uses the expression: heart of hearts.

If I choose to express myself to the one in my life of highest value, of supreme importance, of greatest meaning, I use this ancient but very modern expression...  that my affections come from the depths of my being... with all my heart... from my heart of hearts!