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The Odes of Solomon
from The Lost Books of the Bible and
the Forgotten Books of Eden, Collins-World Publishers
Ode 1
1 The Lord is on my head like a crown, and I shall not be
without Him. 2 They wove for me a crown of truth, and it caused thy branches to bud in me.
3 For it is not like a withered crown which buddeth not: but thou livest upon my head, and
thou hast blossomed upon my head. 4 Thy fruits are full-grown and perfect, they are full
of thy salvation.
Ode 2
No part of this Ode has ever been
identified
Ode 3
The first words of this Ode have
disappeared.
1 ... I put on. 2 And his members are with him. And on
them do I stand, and He loves me: 3 For I should not have known love the Lord, if not
loved me. 4 For who is able to distinguish love except the one that is loved? 5. I love
the beloved and my soul loves Him: 6 And where His rest is, there also am I; 7 And I shall
be no strangers for with the Lord Most High and Merciful there is no grudging. 8 I have
been united to Him, for the Lover has found the Beloved, 9 And because I shall love Him
that is the Son, I shall become a son;. 10 For he that is joined to Him that is immortal,
will also himself become immortal; 11 And he who has pleasure in the Living One, will
become living. 12 This is the Spirit of the Lord, which doth not lie, which teacheth the
sons of men to know His ways. 13 Be wise and understanding and vigilant. Hallelujah.
ODE 4.
This Ode is important because of the historical
allusion with which it commences. This may refer to the closing of the temple at
Leontopolis an Egypt which this writing about
1 No man, O my God, changeth thy holy place; 2 And it is
not (possible) that he should change it and put it in another place: because he hath no
power over it: 3 For thy sanctuary thou hast designed before thou didst make (other)
places: 4 That which is the elder shall not be altered by those that are younger than
itself. 5 Thou has given thy heart, O Lord, to thy believers: never wilt thou fail, nor be
without fruits: 6 For one hour of thy Faith is days and years. 7 For who is there put on
thy grace, and be hurt? 8 For thy seal is known: and thy creatures know it: and thy
(heavenly) hosts possess it: and the elect archangels are clad with it. 9 Thou hast given
us thy fellowship: it was not that thou wast in need of us: but that we are in need of
thee: 10 Distill thy dews upon us and open thy rich fountains that pour forth to us milk
and honey: 11 For there is no repentance with thee that thou shouldest repent of anything
that thou hast promised: 12 And the end was revealed before thee: for what thou gavest,
thou gavest freely: 13 So that thou mayest not draw them back and take them again: 14 For
all was revealed before thee as God, and ordered from the beginning before thee: and thou,
O God, hast made all things. Hallelujah,
ODE 5.
This Ode has strangely appeared in a speech by Salome
in another ancient work called the Pistis Sophia.
1 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, because I love
thee; 2 O Most High, thou wilt not forsake me for thou art my hope: 3 Freely I have
received thy grace, I shall live thereby: 4 My persecutors will come and not see me: 5 A
cloud of darkness shall fall on their eyes; and an air of thick gloom shall darken them: 6
And they shall have no light to see: they may not take hold upon me. 7 Let their counsel
become thick darkness, and what they have cunningly devised, let it return upon their own
heads: 8 For they have devised a counsel and it did not succeed: 9 For my hope is upon the
Lord and I will not fear, and because the Lord is my salvation, I will not fear: and He is
a garland on my head and I shall not be moved; even if everything should be shaken, I
stand firm; 11 And if all things visible should perish, I shall not die; because the Lord
is with me I and I am with Him. Hallelujah.
ODE 6.
First century universalism is revealed
in an interesting way in verse 10.
1 As the hand moves over the harp, and the strings speak,
2 So speaks in my members the Spirit of the Lord, and I speak by His love. 3 For it
destroys what is foreign and everything that is bitter: 4 For thus it was from the
beginning and will be to the end, that nothing should be His adversary, and nothing should
stand up against Him. 5 The Lord has multiplied the knowledge of Himself, and is zealous
that these things should be known, which by His grace have been given to us. 6 And the
praise of His name He gave us: our spirits praise His holy Spirit. 7 For there went forth
a stream and became a river great and broad; 8 For it flooded and broke up everything and
it brought (water) to the Temple; 9 And the restrainers of the children of men were not
able to restrain it, nor the arts of those whose business it is to restrain waters; 10 For
it spread over the face of the whole earth, and filled everything: and all the thirsty
upon earth were given to drink of it; 11 And thirst was relieved and quenched: for from
the Most High the draught was given. 12 Blessed then are the ministers of that draught who
are entrusted with that water 13 They have assuaged the dry lips, and the will that had
fainted they have raised up; 14 And souls that were near departing they have caught back
from death: 15 And limbs that had fallen they straightened and set up: 16 They gave
strength for their feebleness and light to their eyes: 17 For everyone knew them in the
Lord, and they lived by the water of life forever. Hallelujah.
Ode 7
A wonderfully, simple and joyful psalm
on the Incarnation.
1 As the impulse of anger against evil, so is the impulse
of joy over what is lovely, and brings in of its fruits without restraint: 2 My joy is the
Lord and my impulse is toward Him: this path of mine is excellent: 3 For I have a helper,
the Lord. 4 He hath caused me to know Himself, without grudging, by His simplicity: His
kindness has humbled His greatness. 5 He became like me, in order that I might receive
Him: He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on; 7 And I trembled not
when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me: 8 Like my nature He became that I might
learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him: 9 The Father of knowledge
is the word of knowledge: 10 He who created wisdom is wiser than His works: 11 And He who
created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being: 12 Wherefore
He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His
sacrifice: 13 Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the of them.
14 He hath given Him to be seen of them that are His, in order that they may recognize Him
that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves: 15 For
knowledge He hath appointed as its way, hath widened it and extended it; and brought to
all perfection; 16 And set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the
beginning even to the end. 17 For by Him it was wrought, and He was resting in the Son,
and for its salvation He will take hold of everything. 18 And the Most High shall be known
in His Saints, to announce to those that have songs of the coming of the Lord: 19 That
they may go forth to meet Him, and may sing to Him with joy and with the harp of many
tones: 20 The seers shall come before Him and they shall be seen before Him, 21 And they
shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth. 22 And hatred shall
be taken from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drowned: 23 For ignorance
hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived. 24 They who make
songs shall sing the grace of the Lord Most High; 25 And they shall bring their songs, and
their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their
pleasant song; 26 And there shall neither be anything that breathes without knowledge nor
any that is dumb: 27 For He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the
mouth towards Him, to praise Him: 28 Confess ye His power, and show forth His grace.
Hallelujah.
Ode 8
Note the sudden transition from the person of the
Psalmist to the person of the Lord (v. 10). This is like the canonical Psalter in style.
1 Open ye, open ye your hearts to the exultation of the
Lord: 2 And let your love be multiplied from the heart and even to the lips, 3 To bring
forth fruit to the Lord, living [fruit], holy [fruit], and to talk with watchfulness in
His light. 4 Rise up, and stand erect, ye who sometime were brought low: 5 Tell forth ye
who were in silence, that your mouth hath been opened. 6 Ye, therefore, that were despised
be henceforth lifted up, because your righteousness hath been exalted. 7 For the right
hand of the Lord is with you: and He is your helper: 8. And peace was prepared for
you, before ever your war was. 9. Hear the word of truth, and receive the
knowledge of the Most High. 10 Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you: neither
have your hearts known what I am showing to you. 11 Keep. my secret, ye who are kept by
it. l2 Keep my faith, ye who are kept by it. l3 And understand my knowledge, ye who know
me in truth, 14 Love me with affection, ye who love! 15 For I do not turn away my face
from them that are mine; 16 For I know them and before they came into being I took
knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal: 17 I fashioned their members: my own
breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby 18 I took
pleasure in them and am not ashamed of them: 19 For my workmanship are they and the
strength of my thoughts: 20 Who then shall rise up against my handiwork, or who is there
that is not subject to them? 21 I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine,
and by my own right hand I set my elect ones: 22 And my righteousness goeth before them
and they shall not be deprived of my name, for it is with them. 23 Ask, and abound and
abide in the love of the Lord, 24 And yet beloved ones in the Beloved: those who are kept,
in Him that liveth: 25 And they that are saved in Him that was saved; 26 And ye shall be
found incorrupt in all ages to the name of your Father. Hallelujah.
Ode 9
We shall never know surely whether the wars referred
to here are spiritual or actual outward wars.
1 Open your ears and I will speak to you. Give me your
souls that I may also give you my soul, 2 The word of the Lord and His good pleasures, the
holy thought which He has devised concerning his Messiah. 3 For in the will of the Lord is
your salvation, and His thought is everlasting life; and your end is immortality. 4 Be
enriched in God the Father, and receive the thought of the Most High. 5 Be strong and be
redeemed by His grace. 6 For I announce to you peace, to you His saints; 6 That none of
those who hear may fall in war, and that those again who have known Him may not perish,
and that those who receive may not be ashamed. 8 An everlasting crown forever is Truth.
Blessed are they who set it on their heads: 9 A stone of great price is it; and there have
been wars on account of the crown. 10 And righteousness hath taken it and hath given it to
you. 11 Put on the crown in the true covenant of the Lord. 12 And all those who have
conquered shall be written in His book. 13 For their book is victory which is yours. And
she (Victory) sees you before her and wills that you shall be saved. Hallelujah.
ODE 10.
A vigorous little Ode in which Christ
Himself is the speaker.
1 The Lord hath directed my mouth by His word: and He
hath opened my heart by His light: and He hath caused to dwell in me His deathless life; 2
And gave me that I might speak the fruit peace: 3 To convert the souls of them who are
willing to come to Him; and to lead captive a good captivity for freedom. 4 I was
strengthened and made mighty and took the world captive; 5 And it became to me for the
praise of the Most High, and of God my Father. 6 And the Gentiles were gathered together
who were scattered abroad. 7 And I was unpolluted by my love for them, because they
confessed me in high places: and the traces of the light were set upon their heart: 8 And
they walked in my life and were saved and be came my people for ever and ever. Hallelujah.
ODE 11.
A beautiful sketch of Paradise regained and the
blessedness of those who have returned to the privileges of the fallen Adam.
1 My heart was cloven and its flower appeared; and grace
sprang up in it: and it brought forth fruit to the Lord, 2 For the Most High clave my
heart by His Holy Spirit and searched my affection towards Him: and filled me with His
love. 3 And His opening of me became my salvation; and I ran in His way in His peace even
in the way of truth: 4 from the beginning and even to the end I acquired His knowledge: 5
And I was established upon the rock of truth, where He had set me up: 6 And speaking
waters touched my lips from the fountain of the Lord plenteously: 7 And I drank and was
inebriated with the living water that doth not die; 8 And my inebriation was not one
without knowledge, but I forsook vanity and turned to the Most High my God, 9 And I was
enriched by His bounty, and I forsook the folly which is diffused over the earth; and I
stripped it off and cast it from me: 10 And the Lord renewed me in His raiment, and
possessed me by His light, and from above He gave me rest in incorruption; 11 And I became
like the land which blossoms and rejoices in its fruits: 12 And the Lord was like the sun
shining on the face of the land; 13 He lightened my eyes and my face received the dew; the
pleasant odour of the Lord; 14 And He carried me to His Paradise; where is the abundance
of the pleasure, of the Lord; 15 And I worshipped the Lord on account of His glory; and I
said, Blessed, O Lord, are they who are planted in thy land and those who have a place in
thy Paradise; 16 And they grow by the fruits of the trees. And they have changed from
darkness to light. 17 Behold! all thy servants are fair, who do good works, and turn away
from wickedness to the pleasantness that is thine: 18 And they have turned back the
bitterness of the trees from them, when they were planted in thy land; 19 And everything
became like a relic of thyself, and memorial for ever of thy faithful works. 20 For there
is abundant room in thy Paradise, and nothing is useless therein; 21 But everything is
filled with fruit; glory be to thee, O God, the delight of Paradise for ever. Hallelujah.
ODE 12.
An exceptionally high level of
spiritual thought.
1 He hath filled me with words of truth; that I may speak
the same; 2 And like the flow of waters flows truth from my mouth, and my lips show forth
His fruit. 3 And He has caused His knowledge to abound in me, because the mouth of the
Lord is the true Word, and the door of His light; 4 And the Most High hath given it to His
words, which are the interpreters of His own beauty, and the repeaters of His praise, and
the confessors of His counsel and the heralds of His thought and the chasteners of His
servants. 5 For the swiftness of the Word is inexpressible, and like its expression is its
swiftness and force; 6 And its course knows no limit. Never doth it fail, but it stands
sure, and it knows not descent nor the way of it. 7 For as its work is, so is its end: for
it is light and the dawning of thought; 8 And by it the worlds talk one to the other; and
in the Word there were those that were silent; 9 And from it came love and concord; and
they spake one to the other whatever was theirs; and they were penetrated by the Word; 10
And they knew Him who made them, because they were in concord; for the mouth of the Most
High spake to them; and His explanation ran by means of it: 11 For the dwelling-place of
the Word is man: and its truth is love. 12 Blessed are they who by means thereof have
understood everything, and have known the Lord in His truth. Hallelujah.
ODE 13.
A strange little Ode.
1 Behold! the Lord is our mirror: open the eyes and see
them in Him: and learn the manner of your face: 2 And tell forth praise to His spirit: and
wipe off the filth from your face: and love His holiness, and clothe yourselves therewith:
3 And be without stain at all times before Him. Hallelujah.
ODE 14.
This Ode is as beautiful in style as
the canonical Psalter.
1 As the eyes of a son to his father so are my eyes, O
Lord at all times towards thee. 2 For with thee are my consolations and my delight. 3 Turn
not away thy mercies from me, O Lord: and take not thy kindness from me. 4 Stretch out to
me, O Lord, at all times thy right hand: and be my guide even unto the end, according to
thy good pleasure. 5 Let me be well-pleasing before thee, because of thy glory and because
of thy name: 6 Let me be preserved from evil, and let thy meekness, O Lord, abide with me,
and the fruits of thy love. 7 Teach me the Psalms of thy truth, that I may bring forth
fruit in thee: 8 And open to me the harp of thy Holy Spirit, that with all its notes I may
praise thee, O Lord. 9 And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, so thou shalt
give to me; and hasten to grant our petitions; and thou art able for all our needs.
Hallelujah.
Ode 15.
One of the loveliest Odes an this
unusual collection.
1 As the sun is the joy to them that seek for its
daybreak, so is my joy the Lord; 2 Because He is my Sun and His rays have lifted me up and
His light hath dispelled all darkness from my face. In Him I have acquired eyes and have
seen His holy day: 4 Ears have become mine and I have heard His truth. 5 The thought of
knowledge hath been mine, and I have been delighted through Him. 6 The way of error I have
left, and have walked towards Him and have received salvation from Him, without grudging.
7 And according to His bounty He hath given to me and according to His excellent beauty He
hath made me. 8 I have put on incorruption through His name: and have put off corruption
by His grace. 9 Death hath been destroyed before my face: and Sheol bath been abolished by
my word: 10 And there hath gone up deathless life in the Lord's land, 11 And it hath been
made known to His faithful ones, and hath been given without stint to all those that trust
in Him. Hallelujah.
ODE 16.
The beauty of God's creation.
1 As the work of the husband man is the ploughshare: and
the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship: 2 So also my work is the Psalm of
the Lord: my craft and praises: 3 Because His love hath nourished my heart, and even to my
lips His fruits He poured out. 4 For my love is the Lord, and I therefore I will sing unto
Him: 5 For I am made strong in His praise, and I have faith in Him. 6 I will open my mouth
and His spirit will utter in me the glory of the Lord and His beauty; the work of His
hands and the operation of His fingers: 7 The multitude of His mercies and the strength of
His word. 8 For the word of the Lord searches out all things, both the invisible and that
which reveals His thought; 9 For the eye sees His works and the ear hears His thought; 10
He spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea: 11 He measured the heavens
and fixed the stars: and He established the creation and set it up: 12 And He rested from
His works: 13 And created things run in their courses, and do their works: 14 And they
know not how to stand and be idle; and His heavenly hosts are subject to His word. 15 The
treasure-chamber of the light is the sun, and the treasury of the darkness is the night:
16 And He made the sun for the day that it may be bright, but night brings darkness over
the face of the land; 17 And their alternations one to the other speak the beauty of God:
18 And there is nothing that is without the Lord; for He was before any thing came into
being: 19 And the worlds were made by His word, and by the thought of His heart. Glory and
honour to His name. Hallelujah.
ODE 17.
A peculiar change of personality,'
scarcely realized until the return from it in the last verse.
1 I was crowned by my God: my crown is living: 2 And I
was justified in my Lord: my incorruptible salvation is He. 3 I was loosed from vanity,
and I was not condemned: 4 The choking bonds were cut off by her hands: I received the
face and the fashion of a new person: and I walked in it and was saved; 5 And the thought
of truth led me on. And I walked after it and did not wander: 6 And all. that have seen me
were amazed: and I was regarded by them as a strange person: 7 And He who knew and brought
me up is the Most High in all His perfection. And He glorified me by His kindness, and
raised my thoughts to the height of His truth. 8 And from thence He gave me the way of His
precepts and I opened the doors that were closed,. 9 And brake in pieces the bars of iron:
but my iron melted and dissolved before me; 10 Nothing appeared closed to me: because I
was the door of everything. 11 And I went over all my bond men to loose them; that I might
not leave any man bound or binding: 12 And I imparted my knowledge without grudging: and
my prayer was in my love: 13 And I sowed my fruits in hearts, and transformed them into
myself: and they received my blessing and lived; 14 And they were gathered to me and were
saved; because they were to me as my own members and I was their head. Glory to thee our
head the Lord Messiah. Hallelujah.
ODE 18.
A man who had a spiritual experience
brings a message.
1 My heart was lifted up in the love of the Most High and
was enlarged: that I might praise Him for His name's sake. 2 My members were strengthened
that they might not fall from His strength. 3 Sicknesses removed from my body, and it
stood to the Lord by His will. For His kingdom is true. 4 O Lord, for the sake of them
that are deficient do not remove thy word from me! 5 Neither for the sake of their works
do thou restrain from me thy perfection! 6 Let not the luminary be conquered by the
darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood. 7 Thou wilt appoint me to victory; our
Salvation is thy right hand. And thou wilt receive men from all quarters. 8 And thou wilt
preserve whosoever is held in evils: 9 Thou art my God. Falsehood and death are not in thy
mouth: 10 For thy will is perfection; and vanity thou knowest not, 11 Nor does it know
thee. 12 And error thou knowest not, 13 Neither does it know thee. 14 And ignorance
appeared like a blind man; and like the foam of the sea, 15 And they supposed of that vain
thing that it was something great; 16 And they too came in likeness of it and became vain;
and those have understood who have known and meditated; 17 And they have not been corrupt
in their imagination; for such were in the mind of the Lord; 18 And they mocked at them
that were walking in error; 19 And they spake truth from the inspiration which the Most
High breathed into them; Praise and great comeliness to His name. Hallelujah.
ODE 19.
Fantastic and not in harmony with the other Odes. The
reference to a painless Virgin Birth is notable.
1 A cup of milk was offered to me: and I drank it in the
sweetness of the delight of the Lord. 2 The Son is the cup and He who was milked is the
Father: 3 And the Holy Spirit milked Him: because His breasts were full, and it was
necessary for Him that His milk should be sufficiently released; 4 And the Holy Spirit
opened His bosom and mingled the milk from the two breasts of the Father and gave the
mixture to the world without their knowing: 5 And they who receive in its fulness are the
ones on the right hand. 6 The Spirit opened the womb of the Virgin and she received
conception and brought forth; and the Virgin became a Mother with many mercies; 7 And she
travailed and brought forth a Son, without incurring pain; 8 And because she was not
sufficiently prepared, and she had not sought a midwife (for He brought her to bear) she
brought forth, as if she were a man, of her own will; 9 And she brought Him forth openly,
and acquired Him with great dignity, 10 And loved Him in His swaddling clothes and guarded
Him kindly, and showed Him in Majesty. Hallelujah.
ODE 20.
A mixture of ethics and mysticism; of
the golden rule and the tree of life.
1 I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly
service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought. 2 For His thought is not like
the thought of the world nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally.
3 The sacrifice of the Lord is righteousness, and purity of heart and lips. 4 Present your
reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to
soul. 5 Thou shalt not acquire a stranger by the price of thy silver neither shalt thou
seek to devour thy neighbour, 6 Neither shalt thou deprive him of the covering of his
nakedness. 7 But put on the grace of the Lord without stint; and come into His Paradise
and make thee a garland from its tree,. 8 And put it on thy head and be glad; and recline
on His rest, and glory shall go before thee, 9 And thou shalt receive of His kindness and
of His grace; and thou shalt be flourishing in truth in the praise of His holiness. Praise
and honour be to His name. Hallelujah.
ODE 21.
A remarkable explanation of the
"coats of skin" in the third chapter of Genesis.
1 My arms I lifted up to the Most High, even to the grace
of the Lord: because He had cast off my bonds from me: and my Helper had lifted me up to
His grace and to His salvation: 2 And I put off darkness and clothed myself with light, 3
And my soul acquired a body free from sorrow or affliction or pains 4 And increasingly
helpful to me was the thought of the Lord, and His fellowship in incorruption: 5 And I was
lifted up in His light; and I served before Him, 6 And I became near to Him, praising and
confessing Him; 7 My heart ran over and was found in my mouth: and it arose upon my lips;
and the exultation of the Lord increased on my face, and His praise likewise. Hallelujah.
ODE 22.
Like the Psalms of David and their
exultation because of freedom.
1 He who brought me down from on high, also brought me up
from the regions below; 2 And He who gathers together the things that are betwixt is He
also who cast me down: 3 He who scattered my enemies had existed from ancient and my
adversaries: 4 He who gave me authority over bonds that I might loose them; 5 He that
overthrew by my hands the dragon with seven heads: and thou hast set me over his roots
that I might destroy his seed. 6 Thou wast there and didst help me, and in every place thy
name was a rampart to me. 7 Thy right hand destroyed his Wicked poison; and thy hand
levelled the way for those who believe in thee. 8 And thou didst choose them from the
graves and didst separate them from the dead. 9 Thou didst take dead bones
and didst cover them with bodies. 10 They were
motionless, and thou didst give them energy for life. 11 Thy way was without corruption
and thy face; thou didst bring thy world to corruption: that everything might be
dissolved, and then renewed, 12 And that the foundation for everything might be thy rock:
and on it thou didst build thy kingdom; and it became the dwelling place of the saints.
Hallelujah.
ODE 23.
The reference to the sealed document sent by God is
one of the great mysteries of the collection.
1 Joy is of the saints! and who shall put it on, but they
alone? 2 Grace is of the elect! and who shall receive it except those who trust in it from
the beginning? 3 Love is of the elect? And who shall put it on except those who have
possessed it from the beginning? 4 Walk ye in the knowledge of the Most High without
grudging: to His exultation and to the perfection of His knowledge. 5 And His thought was
like a letter; His will descended from on high, and it was sent like an arrow which is
violently from the bow: 6 And many hands rushed to the letter to seize it and to take and
read it: 7 And it escaped their fingers and they were affrighted at it and at the seal
that was upon it. 8 Because it was not permitted to them to loose its seal: for the power
that was over the seal was greater than they. 9 But those who saw it went after the letter
that they might know where it would alight, and who should read it and who should hear it.
10 But a wheel received it and came over it: 11 And there was with it a sign of the
Kingdom and of the Government: 12 And everything which tried to move the wheel it mowed
and cut down: 13 And it gathered the multitude of adversaries, and bridged the rivers and
crossed over and rooted up many forests and made a broad path. 14 The head went down to
the feet for down to the feet ran the wheel, and that which was a sign upon it. 15 The
letter was one of command, for there were included in it all districts; 16 And there was
seen at its head, the head which was revealed even the Son of Truth from the Most High
Father, 17 And He inherited and took possession of everything. And the thought of many was
brought to nought. 18 And all the apostates hasted and fled away. And those who persecuted
and were enraged became extinct, 19 And the letter was a great volume, which was wholly
written by the finger of God: 20 And the name of the Father was on it and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit, to rule for ever and ever. Hallelujah.
ODE 24.
The mention of the Dove refers to a lost Gospel to
which there are rare references in ancient writings.
1 The Dove fluttered over the Messiah, because He was her
head; and she sang over Him and her voice was heard: 2 And the inhabitants were afraid and
the sojourners were moved: 3 The birds dropped their wings and all creeping things died in
their holes: and the abysses were opened which had been hidden; and they cried to the Lord
like women in travail: 4 And no food was given to them, because it did not belong to them;
5 And they sealed up the abysses with the seal of the Lord. And they perished, in the
thought those that had existed from ancient times; 6 For they were corrupt from the
beginning; and the end of their corruption was life: 7 And every one of them that was
imperfect perished: for it was not possible to give them a word that they might remain: 8
And the Lord destroyed the imaginations of all them that had not the truth with them. 9
For they who in their hearts were lifted up were deficient in wisdom and so they were
rejected, because the truth was not with them. 10 For the Lord disclosed His way and
spread abroad His grace: and those who understood it, know His holiness. Hallelujah.
ODE 25.
Back again to personal experience.
1 I was rescued from my bonds and unto thee, my God, I
fled: 2 For thou art the right hand of my Salvation and my helper. 3 Thou hast restrained
those that rise up against me, 4 And I shall see him no more: because thy face was with
me, which saved me by thy grace. 5 But I was despised and rejected in the eyes of many:
and I was in their eyes like lead, 6 And strength was mine from thyself and help. 7 Thou
didst set me a lamp at my right hand and at my left: and in me there shall be nothing that
is not bright: 8 And I was clothed with the covering of thy Spirit, and thou didst remove
from me my raiment of skin; 9 For thy right hand lifted me up and removed sickness from
me: 10 And I became mighty in the truth, and holy by thy righteousness; and all my
adversaries were afraid of me; 11 And I became admirable by the name of the Lord, and I
was justified by His gentleness, and His rest is for ever and ever. Hallelujah.
ODE 26,
Remarkable praise.
1 I poured out praise to the Lord, for I am His: 2 And I
will speak His holy song for my heart is with Him. 3 For His harp is in my hands, and the
Odes of His rest shall not be silent. 4 I will cry unto him from my whole heart: I will
praise and exalt Him with all my members. 5 For from the east and even to the west is His
praise: 6 And from the south and even to the north is the confession of Him: 7 And from
the top of the hills to their utmost bound is His perfection. 8 Who can write the Psalms
of the Lord, or who read them? 9 Or who can train his soul for life that his soul may be
saved, 10 Or who can rest on the Most High, so that with His mouth he may speak? 11 Who is
able to interpret the wonders of the Lord? 12 For he who could interpret would be
dissolved and would become that which is interpreted. 13 For it suffices to know and to
rest: for in rest the singers stand, 14 Like a river which has an abundant fountain, and
flows to the help of them that seek it. Hallelujah.
ODE 27.
The human body makes a cross when a man
stands erect in prayer with arms outstretched.
1 I stretched out my hands and sanctified my Lord: 2 For
the extension of my hands is His sign: 3 And .my expansion is the upright tree [or cross].
ODE 28
This Ode is a musical gem.
1 As the wings of doves over their nestlings; and the
mouth of their nestlings towards their mouths, 2 So also are the wings of the Spirit over
my heart: 3 My heart is delighted and exults: like the babe who exults in the womb of his
mother: 4 I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:
5 He has richly blessed me and my head is with Him: and the sword shall not divide me from
Him, nor the scimitar; 6 For I am ready before destruction comes; and I have been set on
His immortal pinions: 7 And He showed me His sign: forth and given me to drink, and from
that life is the spirit within me and it cannot die, for it lives. 8 They who saw me
marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for
I seemed to them as one of the lost; 9 And my oppression became my salvation; and I was
their reprobation because
there was no seal in me; 10 Because I did good to every
man I was hated, 11 And they came round me like mad dogs, who ignorantly attack their
masters, 12 For their thought is corrupt and their understanding perverted. 13 But I was
carrying water in my right hand and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness: 14 And I
did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs. 15 And they
sought for my death and did not find it: for I was older than the memorial of them; 16 And
vainly did they make attack upon me and those who, without reward, came after me:
17 They sought to destroy the memorial of him who was
before them. 18 For the thought of the Most High cannot be anticipated; and His heart is
superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah.
ODE 29.
Again reminiscent of the Psalms of
David.
1 The Lord is my hope: in Him I shall not be confounded.
2 For according to His praise He made me, and according to His goodness even so He gave
unto me: 3 And according to His mercies He exalted me: and according to His excellent
beauty He set me on high: 4 And brought me up out of the depths of Sheol: and from the
mouth of death He drew me: 5 And thou didst lay my enemies low and He justified me by His
grace. 6 For I believed in the Lord's Messiah: and it appeared to me that He is the Lord;
7 And He showed him His sign: and He led, me by His light, and gave me the rod of His
power 8 That I might subdue the imaginations of the peoples; and the power of the men of
might to bring them low: 9 To make war by His word, and to take victory by His power. 10
And the Lord overthrew my enemy by His word: and he became like the stubble which the wind
carries away; 11 And I gave praise to the Most High because He exalted me His servant and
the son of His handmaid. Hallelujah.
ODE 30.
An invitation to the thirsty.
1 Fill ye waters for yourselves from the living fountain,
of the Lord, for it is opened to you: 2 And come all ye thirsty and take the draught; and
rest by the fountain of the Lord. 3 For fair it is and pure and gives rest to the soul,
Much ore pleasant are its waters than honey; 4 And the honeycomb of bees is not to be
compared with it. 5 For it flows forth from the lips of the Lord and from the heart of the
Lord is its name. 6 And it came infinitely and invisibly: and until it was set in the
midst they did not know it: 7 Blessed are they who have drunk therefrom and have found
rest thereby. Hallelujah.
ODE 31.
A song that Marcus Aurelius might have known when he
said, "Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break."
1 The abysses were dissolved before the Lord: and
darkness was destroyed by His appearance: 2 Error went astray and perished at His hand:
and folly found no path to walk in, and was submerged by the truth of the Lord. 3 He
opened His mouth and spake grace and joy: and He spake a new song of praise to His name: 4
And He lifted up His voice to the Most High and offered the sons that were with Him. 5 And
His face was justified, for thus His holy Father had given to Him. 6 Come forth, ye that
have been afflicted and receive joy, and possess your souls by His grace; and take to you
immortal life. 7 And they made me a debtor when I rose up, me who had been a debtor: and
they divided my spoil, though nothing was due to them. 8 But I endured and held my peace
and was silent as if not moved by them. 9 But I stood unshaken like a firm rock which is
beaten by the waves and endures. 10 An I bore their bitterness for humility's sake: 11 In
order, that I might redeem my people, and inherit it and that I might not make void my
promises to the fathers to whom I promised the salvation of their seed. Hallelujah.
ODE 32.
Joy and light.
1 To the blessed there is joy from their hearts, and
light from Him that dwells in them: 2 And words from the Truth, who was self-originate:
for He is strengthened by the holy power of the Most High: and He is unperturbed for ever
and ever. Hallelujah.
ODE 33
A virgin stands and proclaims
1 Again Grace ran and forsook corruption, and came down
in Him to bring it to nought; 2 And He destroyed perdition from before Him, and devastated
all its order; 3 And He stood on a lofty summit and uttered His voice from one end of the
earth to the other: 4 And drew to Him all those who obeyed Him; and there did not appear
as it were an evil person. 5 But there stood a perfect virgin who was proclaiming and
calling and saying, 6 O ye sons of men, return ye, and ye daughters of men, come ye: 7 And
forsake the ways of that corruption and draw near unto me, and I will enter into you, and
will bring you forth from perdition, 8 And make you wise in the ways of truth: that you be
not destroyed nor perish: 9 Hear ye me and be redeemed. For the grace of God I am telling
among you: and by my means you shall be redeemed and become blessed. 10 I am your judge;
and they who have put me on shall not be injured: but they shall possess the new world
that is incorrupt: 11 My chosen ones walk in me, and my ways I will make known to them
that seek me, and I will make them trust in my name. Hallelujah.
ODE 34.
True poetry--pure and simple.
1 No way is hard where there is a simple heart. 2 Nor is
there any wound where the thoughts are upright: 3 Nor is there any storm in the depth of
the illuminated thought: 4 Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty, there is
nothing that is divided. 5 The likeness of what is below is that which is above; for
everything is above: what is below is nothing but the imagination of those that are
without knowledge. 6 Grace has been revealed for your salvation. Believe and live and be
saved. Hallelujah.
ODE 35.
"No cradled child more softly lies
than I: come soon, eternity."
1 The dew of the Lord in quietness He distilled upon me:
2 And the cloud of peace He caused to rise over my head, which guarded me continually; 3
It was to me for salvation: everything was shaken and they were affrighted; 4 And there
came forth from them a smoke and a judgment; and I was keeping quiet in the order of the
Lord: 5 More than shelter was He to me and more than foundation. 6 And I was carried like
a child by mother: and He gave me milk, the dew of the Lord: 7 And I grew great by His
bounty, and rested in His perfection, 8 And I spread out my hands in the lifting up of my
soul: and I was made right with the Most High and I was redeemed with Him. Hallelujah.
ODE 36.
Theologians have never agreed on an
explanation of this perplexing Ode.
1 I rested in the Spirit of the Lord: and the Spirit
raised me on high: 2 And made me stand on my feet in the height of the Lord, before His
perfection and His glory, while I was praising Him by the composition of His songs. 3 The
Spirit brought me forth before the face of the Lord: and, although a son of man, I was
named the Illuminate, the Son of God: 4 While I praised amongst the praising ones, and
great was I amongst the mighty ones. 5 For according to the greatness of the Most High, so
He made me: and like His own newness He renewed me; and He anointed me from His own
perfection: 6 And I became one of His Neighbours; and my mouth was opened; like a cloud of
dew; 7 And my heart poured out as it were a gushing stream of righteousness, 8 And my
access to Him was in peace; and I was established by the Spirit of His government.
Hallelujah.
ODE 37.
An elementary Ode.
1 I stretched out my hands to my Lord: and to the Most
High I raised my voice: 2 And I spake with the lips of my heart; and He heard me when my
voice reached Him: 3 His answer came to me and gave me the fruits of my labours; 4 And it
gave me rest by the grace of the Lord. Hallelujah.
ODE 38.
A beautiful description of the power of
truth.
1 I went up to the light of truth as if into a chariot: 2
And the Truth took me and led me: and carried me across pits and gulleys; and from the
rocks and the waves it preserved me: 3 And it became to me a haven of Salvation: and set
me on the arms of immortal life: 4 And it went with me and made me rest, and suffered me
not to wander because it was the Truth. 5 And I ran no risk, because I walked with Him; 5
And I did not make an error 4 anything because I obeyed the Truth. 7 For Error flees away
from it and meets it not: but the Truth proceeds in the right path, and 8 What ever I did
not know, it made clear to me, all the poisons of error, and the plagues of death which
they think to be sweetness: 9 And I saw the destroyer of destruction, when the bride who
is corrupted is adorned: and the bridgegroom who corrupts and is corrupted; 10 And I asked
the Truth, 'Who are these?'; and He said to me, 'This is the deceiver and the error: 11
And they are alike in the beloved and in his bride: and they lead astray and corrupt the
whole world: 12 And they invite many to the banquet, 13 And give them to drink of the wine
of their intoxication, and remove their wisdom and knowledge, and so they make them
without intelligence; 14 And then they leave them; and then these go about like madmen
corrupting: seeing that they are with out heart, nor do they seek for it.' 15 And I was
made wise so as not to fall into the hands of the deceiver; and I congratulated myself
because the Truth went with me, 16 And I was established and lived and was redeemed, 17
And my foundations were laid on the hand of the Lord: because He established me. 18 For He
set the root and watered it and fixed it and blessed it; and its fruits are for ever. 19
It struck deep and sprung up and spread out and was full and enlarged; 20 And the Lord
alone was glorified in His planting and in His husbandry: by His care and by the blessing
of His lips, 21 By the beautiful planting of His right hand: and by the discovery of His
planting, and by the thought of His mind. Hallelujah.
ODE 39.
One of the few allusions to events in the Gospels
---that of our Lord walking on the Sea of Galilee
1 Great rivers are the power of the Lord: 2 And they
carry headlong those who despise Him: and entangle their paths: 3 And they sweep away
their fords, and catch their bodies and destroy their lives. 4 For they are more swift
than lightning and more rapid, and those who cross them in faith are not moved; 5 And
those who walk on them without blemish shall not be afraid. 6 For the sign in them is the
Lord; and the sign is the way of those who cross in the name of the Lord; 7 Put on,
therefore the name of the Most High, and know Him and you shall cross without danger, for
the rivers will be subject to you. 8 The Lord has bridged them by His word; and He walked
and crossed them on foot: 9 And His footsteps stand firm on the water, and are not
injured; they are as firm as a tree that is truly set up. 10 And the waves were lifted up
on this side and on that, but the footsteps of our Lord Messiah stand firm and are not
obliterated and are not defaced. 11 And a way has been appointed for those who cross after
Him and for those who adhere to the course of faith in Him and worship His name.
Hallelujah.
ODE 40.
A song of praise without equal.
1 As the honey distills from the comb of the bees, 2 And
the milk flows from the woman that loves her children; 3 So also is my hope on Thee, my
God. 4 As the fountain gushes out its water. 5 So my heart gushes out the praise of the
Lord and my lips utter praise to Him, and my tongue His psalms, 6 And my face exults with
His gladness and my spirit exults in His love and my soul shines in Him: 7 And reverence
confides in Him; and redemption in Him stands assured: 8 And His inheritance is immortal
life, and those who participate in it are incorrupt. Hallelujah.
ODE 41.
We discover that the writer may be a
Gentile (v. 8).
1 All the Lord's children will praise Him, and will
collect the truth of His faith. 2 And His children shall be known to Him. Therefore we
will sing in His love: 3 We live in the Lord by His grace: and life we receive in His
Messiah: 4 For a great day has shined upon us: and marvellous is He who has given us of
His glory. 5 Let us, therefore all of us unite together in the name of the Lord, and let
us honour Him in His goodness, 6 And let our faces shine in His light: and let our hearts
meditate in His love by night and by day. 7 Let us exult with the joy of the Lord. 8 All
those will be astonished that see me, For from another race am I; 9 For the Father of
truth remembered me: He who possessed me from the beginning: 10 For His bounty begat me,
and the thought of His heart: 11 And His Word is with us in all our way; 12 The Saviour
who makes alive and does not reject our souls; 13 The man who was humbled, and exalted by
His own righteousness, 14 The Son of the Most High appeared in the perfection of His
Father; 15 And light dawned from the Word that was beforetime in Him;. 16 The Messiah is
truly one; and He was known before the foundation of the world, 17 That He might save
souls forever by the truth of His name: a new song arises from those who love Him.
Hallelujah.
ODE 42.
The Odes of Solomon, the Son of David,
are ended with the following exquisite verses.
1 I stretched out my hands and approached my Lord: 2 For
the stretching of my hands is His sign: 2 My expansion is the outspread tree which was set
up on the way of the Righteous One. 4 And I became of no account to those who did not take
hold of me and I shall be with those who love me. 5 All my persecutors are dead; and they
sought after me who hoped in me, because I was alive: 6 And I rose up and am with them;
and I will speak by their mouths. 7 For they have despised those who persecuted them; 8
And I lifted up over them the yoke of my love; 9 Like the arm of the bridegroom over the
bride, 10 So was my yoke over those that know me: 11 And as the couch that is spread in
the house of the bridegroom and bride, 12 So is my love over those that believe in me. 13
And I was not rejected though I was reckoned to be so. 14 I did not perish, though they
devised it against me. 13 Sheol saw me and was made miserable: 16 Death cast me up and
many along with me. 17 I had gall and bitterness, and I went down with him to the utmost
of his depth: 18 And the feet and the head he let go, for they were not able to endure my
face: 19 And I made a congregation of living men amongst his dead men, and I spake with
them by living lips: 20 Because my word shall not be void: 21 And those who had died ran
towards me: and they cried and said, Son of God, have pity on us, and do with us according
to thy kindness. 22 And bring us out from the bonds of darkness: and open to us the door
by which we shall come out to thee. 23 For we see that our death has not touched thee. 24
Let us also be redeemed with thee: for thou art our Redeemer. 25 And I heard their voice;
and my name I sealed upon their heads: 26 For they are free men and they are mine.
Hallelujah.
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- Museum of the Bible returns hand-written gospels looted from Greece during the First World War - Art Newspaper - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:41:24
- Bible study: Ancient Jewish manuscript analysed using state-of-the-art cameras - Daily Mail - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:39:25
- Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? - The New York Times - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:32:39
- More Dead Sea Scrolls, second oldest Hebrew Bible manuscript, found after 60 years - ThePrint - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:30:23
- A Biblical Mystery and Reporting Odyssey: 1883 Fragments - The New York Times - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:24:46
- Lost Bible Fragment Recovered Among Dead Sea Scrolls | Lost Bible Fragment Recovered Among Dead Sea Scrolls - Patheos - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:14:35
- African Script Sheds Light on Evolution of Writing - DISCOVER Magazine - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:47:13
- Evidence of ‘biblical giants’ found in northern Israel - The Jerusalem Post - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:39:06
- Oldest precursor to letter S aka Samekhi was found in nine-letter Canaanite text unearthed in Israel - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:39:06
- In Tigray, Christianity May Be Erased - FSSPX.Actualités - FSSPX.News - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:12:41
- Rocket Science Confirms Biblical Creation - Answers In Genesis - Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:28:44
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