Odes of Solomon/Ode 4
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- And the Elect Archangels are Clothed With Your Seal
- 1 No one changes your (celestial) Holy Place, my God,
- and no one can change it and put it in another place,
- 2 because there is no authority over it.
- For your (celestial) Sanctuary you designed
- before you made (earthly) places.
- 3 What is older will not be changed
- by those that are younger.
- You have given your heart, O Lord, to your faithful ones.
- 4 Never will you stop, nor be without fruits.
- 5 For a single hour of your faithfulness
- is more than all days and years.
- 6 For after putting on your goodness, who is there
- who will be condemned?
- 7 Because your seal is known,
- and your creatures are known to it:
- 8 And your hosts have it
- and the elect archangels are clothed with it.
- 9 You gave us your partnership in intimate union;
- it is not that you need us,
- but that we need you.
- 10 Sprinkle upon us your dew,
- and open your abundant fountains
- that pour forth milk and honey to us.
- 11 For there is no regret with you
- that you should regret anything that you have promised.
- 12 And the ending was clear to you.
- 13 For what you gave,
- you gave freely,
- so that you will not remove
- and take away the things you gave.
- 14 For all was clear to you as God,
- and arranged in your view from in the beginning.
- 15 And you, O Lord, have made all things.
- Hallelujah!