Odes of Solomon

tr. Harris, 1911

Chapter 3

(Priora desunt.)

......... I put on: ²And his members are with him. And on them do I hang, and He loves me: ³for I should not have known how to love the Lord, if He had not loved me. ⁴For who is able to distinguish love, except the one that is loved? ⁵I love the Beloved, and my soul loves Him: ⁶and where His rest is, there also am I; ⁷and I shall be no stranger, for with the Lord Most High and Merciful there is no grudging. ⁸I have been united ⌜to Him⌝¹, for the Lover has found the Beloved, ⁹and because I shall love Him that is the Son, I shall become a son²; ¹⁰for he that is joined to Him that is immortal, will also himself become immortal; ¹¹and he who has pleasure in the Living One³, will become living⁴. ¹²This is the Spirit of the Lord, which doth not lie, which teacheth the sons of men to know His ways. ¹³Be wise and understanding and vigilant. Hallelujah.

Notes

Mingled with (as water with wine); cf. 1 Cor. vi. 17.
Or the Son.
The MS. has ‘in life.’ Cf. Apoc. i. 17.
Or the living One.