{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/fbe/fbe222.htm","path":"bib/fbe/fbe222.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe222.htm","text":"The Forgotten Books of Eden, by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr., [1926]\nThis Ode is a musical gem.\n1 As the wings of doves over their nestlings; and the mouth of their nestlings towards their mouths.\n 2 So also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart:\n 3 My heart is delighted and exults: like the babe who exults in the womb of his mother:\n 4 I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:\n 5 He has richly blessed me and my head is with Him: and the sword shall not divide me from Him, nor the scimitar;\n 6 For I am ready before destruction comes; and I have been set on His immortal pinions:\n 7 And He showed me His sign: forth and given me to drink, and from that life is the spirit within me, and it cannot die, for it lives.\n 8 They who saw me marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them as one of the lost;\n 9 And my oppression became my salvation; and I was their reprobation because there was no zeal in me;\n 10 Because I did good to every man I was hated,\n 11 And they came round me like mad dogs, who ignorantly attack their masters,\n 12 For their thought is corrupt and their understanding perverted.\n 13 But I was carrying water in my right hand, and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness;\n 14 And I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs.\n 15 And they sought for my death and did not find it: for I was older than the memorial of them;\n 16 And vainly did they make attack upon me and those who, without reward, came after me:\n 17 They sought to destroy the memorial of him who was before them.\n 18 For the thought of the Most High cannot be anticipated; and His heart is superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah.","title":"The Forgotten Books of Eden: The Odes of Solomon: Ode 28","type":"page"}