Odes of Solomon ODE 6.
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.
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