Odes of Solomon

tr. Harris, 1911

Chapter 20

¹I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought. ²For His thought is not like ⌜the thought of⌝ the world nor ⌜the thought of⌝ the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally. ³The sacrifice of the Lord is righteousness, and purity of heart and lips. ⁴Present your reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to soul. ⁵Thou shalt not acquire a stranger by ⌜the price of thy silver⌝¹, neither shalt thou seek to devour thy neighbour², ⁶neither shalt thou deprive him of the covering of his nakedness³. ⁷But put on the grace of the Lord without stint; and come into His Paradise and make thee a garland from its tree, ⁸and put it on thy head and be glad; and recline on His rest, and glory shall go before thee, ⁹and thou shalt receive of His kindness and of His grace; and thou shalt be flourishing⁴ in truth in the praise of His holiness. Praise and honour be to His name. Hallelujah.

Notes

Literally, by the blood of thy soul. I correct the Syriac, which is faulty, and has repeated ‘thy soul’ from the previous verse.
Cf. Exod. xxii. 24.
Exod. xxii. 26.
lit. fat.