1000 Songs/As the impulse of anger against evil (ode 07)
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As the impulse of anger against evil (ode 07)
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[edit | edit source]Ode 7 is attributed to Solomon. It is thought to have been either written originally written in Greek or Syriac.
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[edit | edit source]- As the impulse of anger against evil, so is the impulse of joy over what is lovely, and brings in of its fruits without restraint:
- My joy is the Lord and my impulse is toward Him: this path of mine is excellent:
- For I have a helper, the Lord.
- He hath caused me to know Himself, without grudging, by His simplicity: His kindness has humbled His greatness.
- He became like me, in order that I might receive Him:
- He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on;
- And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me:
- Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:
- The Father of knowledge is the word of knowledge:
- He who created wisdom is wiser than His works:
- And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:
- Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His sacrifice:
- Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the of them.
- He hath given Him to be seen of them that are His, in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves:
- For knowledge He hath appointed as its way, hath widened it and extended it; and brought to all perfection;
- And set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the beginning even to the end.
- For by Him it was wrought, and He was resting in the Son, and for its salvation He will take hold of everything.
- And the Most High shall be known in His Saints, to announce to those that have songs of the coming of the Lord:
- That they may go forth to meet Him, and may sing to Him with joy and with the harp of many tones:
- The seers shall come before Him and they shall be seen before Him,
- And they shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth.
- And hatred shall be taken from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drowned:
- For ignorance hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived.
- They who make songs shall sing the grace of the Lord Most High;
- And they shall bring their songs, and their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song;
- And there shall neither be anything that breathes without knowledge nor any that is dumb:
- For He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the mouth towards Him, to praise Him:
- Confess ye His power, and show forth His grace. Hallelujah.
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[edit | edit source]Solomon is attributed to writing the Odes of Solomon. These are apocryphal and not canonical.