Odes of Solomon ODE 4.
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,
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