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Ode
501 11| who have returned to the privileges of the fallen Adam. ~1 My
502 38| meets it not: but the Truth proceeds in the right path, and 8
503 33| a perfect virgin who was proclaiming and calling and saying,
504 33| 33 ~A virgin stands and proclaims ~1 Again Grace ran and forsook
505 31| I might not make void my promises to the fathers to whom I
506 31| when he said, "Be like the promontory against which the waves
507 8| transition from the person of the Psalmist to the person of the Lord (
508 20| Lord is righteousness, and purity of heart and lips. 4 Present
509 18| wilt receive men from all quarters. 8 And thou wilt preserve
510 6| thirst was relieved and quenched: for from the Most High
511 35| judgment; and I was keeping quiet in the order of the Lord:
512 35| 1 The dew of the Lord in quietness He distilled upon me: 2
513 41| see me, For from another race am I; 9 For the Father of
514 22| every place thy name was a rampart to me. 7 Thy right hand
515 39| than lightning and more rapid, and those who cross them
516 24| Gospel to which there are rare references in ancient writings. ~
517 15| Because He is my Sun and His rays have lifted me up and His
518 37| He heard me when my voice reached Him: 3 His answer came to
519 28| the scimitar; 6 For I am ready before destruction comes;
520 17| of personality,' scarcely realized until the return from it
521 20| thy head and be glad; and recline on His rest, and glory shall
522 7| in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and
523 31| 11 In order, that I might redeem my people, and inherit it
524 42| with thee: for thou art our Redeemer. 25 And I heard their voice;
525 40| reverence confides in Him; and redemption in Him stands assured: 8
526 4| which it commences. This may refer to the closing of the temple
527 24| to which there are rare references in ancient writings. ~1
528 9| surely whether the wars referred to here are spiritual or
529 24| The mention of the Dove refers to a lost Gospel to which
530 11| beautiful sketch of Paradise regained and the blessedness of those
531 17| me were amazed: and I was regarded by them as a strange person:
532 22| also brought me up from the regions below; 2 And He who gathers
533 20| and lips. 4 Present your reins before Him blamelessly:
534 41| makes alive and does not reject our souls; 13 The man who
535 11| land which blossoms and rejoices in its fruits: 12 And the
536 19| milk should be sufficiently released; 4 And the Holy Spirit opened
537 11| everything became like a relic of thyself, and memorial
538 6| of it; 11 And thirst was relieved and quenched: for from the
539 24| them a word that they might remain: 8 And the Lord destroyed
540 41| For the Father of truth remembered me: He who possessed me
541 29| ODE 29. ~Again reminiscent of the Psalms of David. ~
542 12| His own beauty, and the repeaters of His praise, and the confessors
543 4| thee that thou shouldest repent of anything that thou hast
544 4| honey: 11 For there is no repentance with thee that thou shouldest
545 28| salvation; and I was their reprobation because ~there was no seal
546 25| personal experience. ~1 I was rescued from my bonds and unto thee,
547 7| was wrought, and He was resting in the Son, and for its
548 25| and my helper. 3 Thou hast restrained those that rise up against
549 6| to the Temple; 9 And the restrainers of the children of men were
550 7| in of its fruits without restraint: 2 My joy is the Lord and
551 11| blessedness of those who have returned to the privileges of the
552 16| invisible and that which reveals His thought; 9 For the eye
553 40| soul shines in Him: 7 And reverence confides in Him; and redemption
554 28| me and those who, without reward, came after me: ~17 They
555 4| dews upon us and open thy rich fountains that pour forth
556 28| have believed: 5 He has richly blessed me and my head is
557 42| set up on the way of the Righteous One. 4 And I became of no
558 38| the Truth. 5 And I ran no risk, because I walked with Him;
559 38| and gulleys; and from the rocks and the waves it preserved
560 29| His light, and gave me the rod of His power 8 That I might
561 11| 20 For there is abundant room in thy Paradise, and nothing
562 38| established me. 18 For He set the root and watered it and fixed
563 23| rivers and crossed over and rooted up many forests and made
564 22| thou hast set me over his roots that I might destroy his
565 28| hated, 11 And they came round me like mad dogs, who ignorantly
566 16| works: 13 And created things run in their courses, and do
567 23| the bow: 6 And many hands rushed to the letter to seize it
568 5| appeared in a speech by Salome in another ancient work
569 | same
570 27| stretched out my hands and sanctified my Lord: 2 For the extension
571 4| power over it: 3 For thy sanctuary thou hast designed before
572 24| He was her head; and she sang over Him and her voice was
573 41| world, 17 That He might save souls forever by the truth
574 41| us in all our way; 12 The Saviour who makes alive and does
575 17| change of personality,' scarcely realized until the return
576 28| divide me from Him, nor the scimitar; 6 For I am ready before
577 11| heart by His Holy Spirit and searched my affection towards Him:
578 16| For the word of the Lord searches out all things, both the
579 8| showing to you. 11 Keep. my secret, ye who are kept by it.
580 38| like madmen corrupting: seeing that they are with out heart,
581 | seemed
582 7| harp of many tones: 20 The seers shall come before Him and
583 23| rushed to the letter to seize it and to take and read
584 32| from the Truth, who was self-originate: for He is strengthened
585 22| from the graves and didst separate them from the dead. 9 Thou
586 29| because He exalted me His servant and the son of His handmaid.
587 20| flesh, nor like them that serve carnally. 3 The sacrifice
588 21| lifted up in His light; and I served before Him, 6 And I became
589 20| and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the
590 16| spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea: 11
591 22| my hands the dragon with seven heads: and thou hast set
592 35| of the Lord: 5 More than shelter was He to me and more than
593 41| goodness, 6 And let our faces shine in His light: and let our
594 41| Messiah: 4 For a great day has shined upon us: and marvellous
595 40| in His love and my soul shines in Him: 7 And reverence
596 11| the Lord was like the sun shining on the face of the land;
597 16| steersman is the guidance of the ship: 2 So also my work is the
598 4| repentance with thee that thou shouldest repent of anything that
599 8| your hearts known what I am showing to you. 11 Keep. my secret,
600 25| lifted me up and removed sickness from me: 10 And I became
601 18| fall from His strength. 3 Sicknesses removed from my body, and
602 8| Tell forth ye who were in silence, that your mouth hath been
603 20| stranger by the price of thy silver neither shalt thou seek
604 7| without grudging, by His simplicity: His kindness has humbled
605 26| to rest: for in rest the singers stand, 14 Like a river which
606 11| ODE 11. ~A beautiful sketch of Paradise regained and
607 35| there came forth from them a smoke and a judgment; and I was
608 35| No cradled child more softly lies than I: come soon,
609 24| inhabitants were afraid and the sojourners were moved: 3 The birds
610 42| ODE 42. ~The Odes of Solomon, the Son of David, are ended
611 | something
612 | sometime
613 35| softly lies than I: come soon, eternity." ~1 The dew of
614 5| ancient work called the Pistis Sophia. ~1 I will give thanks unto
615 21| acquired a body free from sorrow or affliction or pains 4
616 26| His praise: 6 And from the south and even to the north is
617 17| was in my love: 13 And I sowed my fruits in hearts, and
618 10| which Christ Himself is the speaker. ~1 The Lord hath directed
619 11| He had set me up: 6 And speaking waters touched my lips from
620 6| the strings speak, 2 So speaks in my members the Spirit
621 5| strangely appeared in a speech by Salome in another ancient
622 6| His name He gave us: our spirits praise His holy Spirit.
623 31| debtor: and they divided my spoil, though nothing was due
624 11| flower appeared; and grace sprang up in it: and it brought
625 38| ever. 19 It struck deep and sprung up and spread out and was
626 13| therewith: 3 And be without stain at all times before Him.
627 16| the heavens and fixed the stars: and He established the
628 16| ploughshare: and the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship:
629 9| set it on their heads: 9 A stone of great price is it; and
630 34| upright: 3 Nor is there any storm in the depth of the illuminated
631 6| limbs that had fallen they straightened and set up: 16 They gave
632 5| ODE 5. ~This Ode has strangely appeared in a speech by
633 20| Thou shalt not acquire a stranger by the price of thy silver
634 3| am I; 7 And I shall be no strangers for with the Lord Most High
635 14| thy kindness from me. 4 Stretch out to me, O Lord, at all
636 42| approached my Lord: 2 For the stretching of my hands is His sign:
637 6| moves over the harp, and the strings speak, 2 So speaks in my
638 11| diffused over the earth; and I stripped it off and cast it from
639 38| fruits are for ever. 19 It struck deep and sprung up and spread
640 29| and he became like the stubble which the wind carries away;
641 29| His power 8 That I might subdue the imaginations of the
642 31| path to walk in, and was submerged by the truth of the Lord.
643 5| a counsel and it did not succeed: 9 For my hope is upon the
644 | such
645 8| Ode 8 ~Note the sudden transition from the person
646 38| me and made me rest, and suffered me not to wander because
647 26| is interpreted. 13 For it suffices to know and to rest: for
648 33| And He stood on a lofty summit and uttered His voice from
649 28| anticipated; and His heart is superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah. ~
650 7| and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves:
651 12| doth it fail, but it stands sure, and it knows not descent
652 9| Ode 9 ~We shall never know surely whether the wars referred
653 34| thought: 4 Where one is surrounded on every side by beauty,
654 19| 10 And loved Him in His swaddling clothes and guarded Him
655 28| they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them
656 39| their paths: 3 And they sweep away their fords, and catch
657 39| lives. 4 For they are more swift than lightning and more
658 28| head is with Him: and the sword shall not divide me from
659 14| the fruits of thy love. 7 Teach me the Psalms of thy truth,
660 3| which doth not lie, which teacheth the sons of men to know
661 33| For the grace of God I am telling among you: and by my means
662 14| to the multitude of thy tender mercies, so thou shalt give
663 5| Pistis Sophia. ~1 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, because
664 | themselves
665 | thence
666 36| ODE 36. ~Theologians have never agreed on an
667 30| are they who have drunk therefrom and have found rest thereby.
668 | thereof
669 13| holiness, and clothe yourselves therewith: 3 And be without stain
670 | thine
671 38| plagues of death which they think to be sweetness: 9 And I
672 21| the "coats of skin" in the third chapter of Genesis. ~1 My
673 6| given to drink of it; 11 And thirst was relieved and quenched:
674 7| and with the harp of many tones: 20 The seers shall come
675 40| utter praise to Him, and my tongue His psalms, 6 And my face
676 | too
677 26| confession of Him: 7 And from the top of the hills to their utmost
678 | toward
679 26| read them? 9 Or who can train his soul for life that his
680 17| my fruits in hearts, and transformed them into myself: and they
681 8| Ode 8 ~Note the sudden transition from the person of the Psalmist
682 24| to the Lord like women in travail: 4 And no food was given
683 19| many mercies; 7 And she travailed and brought forth a Son,
684 16| subject to His word. 15 The treasure-chamber of the light is the sun,
685 16| light is the sun, and the treasury of the darkness is the night:
686 7| might put Him on; 7 And I trembled not when I saw Him: because
687 23| 12 And everything which tried to move the wheel it mowed
688 19| mingled the milk from the two breasts of the Father and
689 8| who are kept by it. l3 And understand my knowledge, ye who know
690 41| us, therefore all of us unite together in the name of
691 3| grudging. 8 I have been united to Him, for the Lover has
692 6| ODE 6. ~First century universalism is revealed in an interesting
693 32| the Most High: and He is unperturbed for ever and ever. Hallelujah. ~
694 10| scattered abroad. 7 And I was unpolluted by my love for them, because
695 31| moved by them. 9 But I stood unshaken like a firm rock which is
696 15| the loveliest Odes an this unusual collection. ~1 As the sun
697 11| Paradise, and nothing is useless therein; 21 But everything
698 33| stood on a lofty summit and uttered His voice from one end of
699 28| memorial of them; 16 And vainly did they make attack upon
700 42| the following exquisite verses. ~1 I stretched out my hands
701 3| wise and understanding and vigilant. Hallelujah. ~
702 10| ODE 10. ~A vigorous little Ode in which Christ
703 20| and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to
704 23| sent like an arrow which is violently from the bow: 6 And many
705 5| firm; 11 And if all things visible should perish, I shall not
706 23| And the letter was a great volume, which was wholly written
707 8| fruit], and to talk with watchfulness in His light. 4 Rise up,
708 38| For He set the root and watered it and fixed it and blessed
709 14| good pleasure. 5 Let me be well-pleasing before thee, because of
710 26| the east and even to the west is His praise: 6 And from
711 | whatever
712 7| when I came into being: 12 Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant
713 | whether
714 23| great volume, which was wholly written by the finger of
715 | whose
716 18| 8 And thou wilt preserve whosoever is held in evils: 9 Thou
717 22| right hand destroyed his Wicked poison; and thy hand levelled
718 11| works, and turn away from wickedness to the pleasantness that
719 7| appointed as its way, hath widened it and extended it; and
720 8| not subject to them? 21 I willed and fashioned mind and heart:
721 10| the souls of them who are willing to come to Him; and to lead
722 9| sees you before her and wills that you shall be saved.
723 29| like the stubble which the wind carries away; 11 And I gave
724 38| give them to drink of the wine of their intoxication, and
725 13| praise to His spirit: and wipe off the filth from your
726 7| He who created wisdom is wiser than His works: 11 And He
727 1| 3 For it is not like a withered crown which buddeth not:
728 | within
729 40| the milk flows from the woman that loves her children;
730 24| they cried to the Lord like women in travail: 4 And no food
731 7| Ode 7 ~A wonderfully, simple and joyful psalm
732 26| is able to interpret the wonders of the Lord? 12 For he who
733 8| ashamed of them: 19 For my workmanship are they and the strength
734 39| course of faith in Him and worship His name. Hallelujah. ~
735 11| pleasure, of the Lord; 15 And I worshipped the Lord on account of His
736 34| heart. 2 Nor is there any wound where the thoughts are upright:
737 1| not be without Him. 2 They wove for me a crown of truth,
738 26| His perfection. 8 Who can write the Psalms of the Lord,
739 41| 41. ~We discover that the writer may be a Gentile (v. 8). ~
740 4| Leontopolis an Egypt which this writing about ~1 No man, O my God,
741 24| rare references in ancient writings. ~1 The Dove fluttered over
742 7| end. 17 For by Him it was wrought, and He was resting in the
743 4| of thy Faith is days and years. 7 For who is there put
744 4| altered by those that are younger than itself. 5 Thou has
745 | yours
746 6| knowledge of Himself, and is zealous that these things should
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