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Odes of Solomon 12

Odae Solomontos

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He hath filled me with words of truth, That I may speak the same.

2And like the flow of waters, flows truth from my mouth, And my lips showed forth its fruits.

3And it has caused its knowledge to abound in me, Because the mouth of the Lord is the true Word, And the door of His light;

4And the Most High hath given Him to His Worlds. (Worlds) which are the interpreters of His own beauty, And the repeaters of His praise, And the confessors of His thought, And the heralds of His mind, And the instructors of His works.

5For the swiftness of the Word is inexpressible (?) And like His expression (?) is His swiftness and His sharpness: And His course has no limit.

6Never (doth the Word) fall, but ever it standeth; His descent and His way are incomprehensible.

7For as His work is, so is His limit; For He is the light and the dawn of thought.

8And by Him the worlds spake one to the other: And those that were silent acquired speech.

9And from Him came love and concord; And they spake one to the other what they had (to tell).

10And they were stimulated by the Word, And they knew Him that made them, Because they came into concord.

11For the mouth of the Most High spake to them; And the interpretation of Himself had its course by Him.

12For the dwelling-place of the Word is man, And His truth is love.

13Blessed are they who by it have comprehended everything, And who have known the Lord by His truth. Hallelujah.

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About Odes of Solomon

42 early Christian hymns, probably from the 2nd century, in images of milk, crown and living water. The oldest liturgical poetry to survive outside the Psalms. English text: The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, vol. 2 (Manchester University Press), J. Rendel Harris and Alphonse Mingana, 1920 (public domain). Portuguese and Spanish: Lux Veritas translations from this edition.

Source: The Odes and Psalms of Solomon, vol. 2 (Manchester University Press), J. Rendel Harris and Alphonse Mingana (1920) · public domain