1000 Songs/As the impulse of anger against evil (ode 07)

As the impulse of anger against evil (ode 07)

1000 Songs

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Ode 7 is attributed to Solomon. It is thought to have been either written originally written in Greek or Syriac.

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 * 1) 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:
 * 2) My joy is the Lord and my impulse is toward Him: this path of mine is excellent:
 * 3) For I have a helper, the Lord.
 * 4) He hath caused me to know Himself, without grudging, by His simplicity: His kindness has humbled His greatness.
 * 5) He became like me, in order that I might receive Him:
 * 6) He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on;
 * 7) And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me:
 * 8) Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:
 * 9) The Father of knowledge is the word of knowledge:
 * 10) He who created wisdom is wiser than His works:
 * 11) And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:
 * 12) Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His sacrifice:
 * 13) Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the of them.
 * 14) 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:
 * 15) For knowledge He hath appointed as its way, hath widened it and extended it; and brought to all perfection;
 * 16) And set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the beginning even to the end.
 * 17) For by Him it was wrought, and He was resting in the Son, and for its salvation He will take hold of everything.
 * 18) And the Most High shall be known in His Saints, to announce to those that have songs of the coming of the Lord:
 * 19) That they may go forth to meet Him, and may sing to Him with joy and with the harp of many tones:
 * 20) The seers shall come before Him and they shall be seen before Him,
 * 21) And they shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth.
 * 22) And hatred shall be taken from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drowned:
 * 23) For ignorance hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived.
 * 24) They who make songs shall sing the grace of the Lord Most High;
 * 25) 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;
 * 26) And there shall neither be anything that breathes without knowledge nor any that is dumb:
 * 27) For He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the mouth towards Him, to praise Him:
 * 28) Confess ye His power, and show forth His grace. Hallelujah.

Background
Solomon is attributed to writing the Odes of Solomon. These are apocryphal and not canonical.