Odes of Solomon

tr. Harris, 1911

Chapter 22

¹He who brought me down from on high, also brought me up from the regions below; ²and He who gathers together the things that are betwixt is He also who cast me down: ³He who scattered my enemies and my adversaries: ⁴He who gave me authority over bonds that I might loose them; ⁵He that overthrew by my hands the dragon with seven heads¹: and thou hast set me over his roots that I might destroy his seed. ⁶Thou wast there and didst help me, and in every place thy name was a rampart to me. ⁷Thy right hand destroyed his wicked poison²; and thy hand levelled the way for those who believe in thee: ⁸and thou didst choose them from the graves and didst separate them from the dead. ⁹Thou didst take dead bones and didst cover them with bodies; ¹⁰they were motionless, and thou didst give ⌜them⌝ energy for life. ¹¹Thy way was without corruption, and thy face; thou didst bring³ thy world to corruption: that everything might be dissolved⁴, and then renewed, ¹²and that the foundation for everything might be thy rock⁵: and on it thou didst build thy Kingdom; and it became the dwelling-place of the saints. Hallelujah.

Notes

Cf. Apoc. xii. 3: and Pistis Sophia: see Introd. pp. 61–63.
Copt. the poison of the slanderer.
Following a correction of Flemming.
Cf. 2 Pet. iii. 11.
Cf. Matt. xvi. 18.